Reporting build failures on Leopard: Where?

[Ralf Waldvogel]

Thanks for the advise :)

Unfortunately there are quite a few builds broken.
Do you know if there is a list or something like that, where to keep  
the status for 10.5?


On 24.08.2007, at 09:22, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Aug 23, 2007, at 07:59, Jyrki Wahlstedt wrote:
>
>> On 23.8.2007, at 15.48, Ralf Waldvogel wrote:
>>
>>> I may have a very stupid question:  Where do I report build  
>>> failures for packages on Leopard?
>>>
>>> I have trouble building quite a few ports on Mac OS 10.5, which  
>>> build without failure on 10.4.
>>> Do I report directly to the package owner? Question then: How to  
>>> get the package owner?
>>> Or this there a centralised "task force" for porting ports to  
>>> 10.5, which I will report to?
>>
>> 10.5 is not yet open for public discussion, so it would be best to  
>> try package's owner, look for the maintainer in the port ('port  
>> info x' gives you the maintainer). If the maintainer is  
>> 'openmaintainer' or 'nomaintainer', then you are on your own.
>
> Even if the port has a maintainer, you're probably on your own, as  
> most of us don't have access to Leopard. But if you can tell the  
> maintainer how to fix the build for Leopard, then the maintainer can  
> just take your word for it and apply your patch.
>