On 2021/01/16 13:41, Reeto Chatterjee wrote:
> Bump

No patch attached.

> > On 3 Dec 2020, at 03:14, Reeto Chatterjee <m...@ree.to> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I’ve attached a small patch to update ddclient from 3.8.3 to 3.9.1. The 
> > project has moved to GitHub (as noted on the old sourceforge homepage) and 
> > the dependencies have changed slightly. I’ve updated the dependencies from 
> > the README https://github.com/ddclient/ddclient/tree/v3.9.1 .
> > 
> > I had a couple of questions:
> > 1) How are optional dependencies generally handled? JSON, IPv6 and SSL seem 
> > to be optional. Currently I’ve added them all to the runtime dependencies.

Generally for optional dependencies which are checked at *run* time:

If they're small and quite useful, include them.

If they're huge (or have a big chain of dependencies themselves) and not
very useful, don't.

If they're in between, make a judgment call.

> > 2) Should the REVISION remain at 1 or be reset to 0 when upgrading 
> > versions? I’ve left it as 1. 

Please remove the line completely.

> > I lack the knowledge of Perl to do the security review that the Porting 
> > guide mentions, so please could someone take a look (if it’s necessary). 
> > 
> > Finally, I don’t have commit access to CVS. If this looks alright, please 
> > could someone run the committing commands? 
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > Reeto
> > 
> > <patch>
> > 

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