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Date:      Tue, 27 Feb 1996 03:00:06 +0100
From:      "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@freebsd.org>
To:        ports@freebsd.org
Cc:        "Lars Jonas Olsson" <jonas@mcs.com>, asami@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: xview-lib 
Message-ID:  <199602270200.DAA08909@vector.jhs.local>

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Hi Ports people, Satoshi in particular...

Seems like ports/x11/xview-lib may be a defunct orphan:
  (I discovered this when I ran a for loop making all ~300 ports packages,
  & this one broke)
I suggest consider hashing out the SUBDIR += xview-lib in x11/Makefile,
until it's fixed or a maintainer volunteers (not me, dunno what it is even :-)

Reference:
> From: "Lars Jonas Olsson" <jonas@mcs.com> 
> Subject: Re: xview-lib 
> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 09:28:51 -0600 (CST) 
> Message-id: <m0tr4r5-0005yPC@mars.mcs.com> 
>
> Yes, but does it say anything about maintainer? I'm not maintaining it.
> I'm not even using it anymore. The port was done a long time ago.
> 
> Jonas
> 
> > 
> > Hi ljo,
> > This port fetch fails,
> > /usr/bin/ncftp -N ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/xview-lib.tar
- .gz
> > 
> > The ports/x11/xview-lib/Makefile  says:
> > # New ports collection makefile for:    xview-lib
> > # Version required:     3.2p1-X11R6
> > # Date created:         22 November 1994
> > # Whom:                 ljo
> > #
> > # $Id: Makefile,v 1.10 1995/10/06 02:03:50 asami Exp $

Julian
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Julian H. Stacey	jhs@freebsd.org  	http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/



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