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Date:      Thu, 7 Jun 2012 11:25:32 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports MOVED ports/sysutils Makefile ports/sysutils/pwgen Makefile distinfo pkg-descr ports/sysutils/pwgen/files patch-aa ports/sysutils/pwgen2 Makefile distinfo pkg-descr
Message-ID:  <20120607112532.GA2566@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <201206071049.q57AnCKo000855@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <201206071049.q57AnCKo000855@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 10:49:12AM +0000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> des         2012-06-07 10:49:12 UTC
> 
>   Modified files:
>     .                    MOVED 
>     sysutils             Makefile 
>     sysutils/pwgen       Makefile distinfo pkg-descr 
>   Removed files:
>     sysutils/pwgen/files patch-aa 
>     sysutils/pwgen2      Makefile distinfo pkg-descr 
>   Log:
>   Replace pwgen 1 with pwgen 2.  The latter is a continuation of the former
>   by a different author, with some serious bugs fixed.  We were pretty much
>   the only OS that still shipped pwgen 1, and for good reason: due to the
>   way it implements phoneme equivalence and the way it tracks the length of
>   the generated string, it only works correctly 16% of the time.  This was
>   not possible to fix without a major rewrite, which is precisely what the
>   author of pwgen 2 did.

Finally!  Thank you so much!

./danfe



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