Changes since 7.31beta are unknown since the upstream author didn't
document anything.
I just stumbled upon this package because it didn't build with
-Werror=char-subscripts. That bug seems to have been fixed.
pkglint -r --network --only "migrate"
As a side-effect of migrating the homepages, pkglint also fixed a few
indentations in unrelated lines. These and the new homepages have been
checked manually.
The primary motivator for the upgrade is to improve the book generation
time, which is now several times faster (builds were failing with CPU ulimit
of 1 hour on 3GHz Xeon E5's with the previous version). This new version
even supports multiple cores, though that isn't enabled at this time.
There appear to have been many other updates, but there is no ChangeLog
and there aren't even any intermediate versions for download (hence using
the current beta version). Upstream unfortunately makes it as difficult
as possible to see the history of this package.
developer is officially maintaining the package.
The rationale for changing this from "tech-pkg" to "pkgsrc-users" is
that it implies that any user can try to maintain the package (by
submitting patches to the mailing list). Since the folks most likely
to care about the package are the folks that want to use it or are
already using it, this would leverage the energy of users who aren't
developers.
