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List:       freebsd-stable
Subject:    Re: 8.0-RELEASE and Emacs port
From:       Byung-Hee HWANG <bh () izb ! knu ! ac ! kr>
Date:       2009-07-30 22:54:17
Message-ID: 867hxp4w9y.fsf () betla ! izb ! knu ! ac ! kr
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Byung-Hee HWANG <bh@izb.knu.ac.kr> writes:

> Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> writes:
>
>> On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:42:26 +0900, Byung-Hee HWANG <bh@izb.knu.ac.kr> wrote:
>>> Hello! A few hours ago, Chong Yidong, Emacs maintainer, has been
>>> released Emacs 23.1 on gnu.org's mailing lists. Since i use Emacs as
>>> default mailer, i really want that FreeBSD Project Release Team to add
>>> Emacs 23.1 (Stable Ver.) into FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE. Because i use only
>>> -RELEASE branch as far as i possibly can. Then i can use pkg_add
>>> instead of ports, so easily. Thanks in advance ..;;
>>
>> Hi Byung-Hee,
>>
>> AFAIK, The ports are not frozen yet.  I think we can make it by updating
>> the port before this weekend.
>>
>> There is a bit of testing to make sure that we can repo-copy the
>> editors/emacs port to editors/emacs22 and check that the new
>> editors/emacs port for 23.1 works fine.
>>
>> I'm working on it, and I will post patches soon-ish :)
>
> Thanks, Giorgos! Let's fire Emacs gun!
>
> ... and following is somewhat off topic. FreeBSD Project's SPF rules
> marked Giorgos's mail address (keramida@freebsd.org) as
> "softfail". That's bad news to me. SPF [RFC4408] is Experimental draft,
> you know. Actually Giorgos's mail is very healthy message. Hmm.. i
> cannot understand why FreeBSD Project postmaster team adopted such lame
> email policy. Please let's go with another policy (e.g., RFC4801). There
> is good role model on RFC4801. The Python Project deployed RFC4801 rules
> in their own mailing list server, as far as i know. And i heard that is
> working very fine ...

Oops, i made mistake. The above RFC4801 should be RFC4871. Sorry ;; 
 
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