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On 4/10/2012 14:44, Pietro Cerutti wrote:

> I might agree on that. But how is a DEPRECATED port better than a BROKEN
> one in this regard?

In theory, it tickles administrators to look for alternatives if they
depend on the port or fork a working copy of the port in their local
infrastructure and provides a deadline for this to action to be
completed. BROKEN is supposed to be a temporary state, leading to a fix.
DEPRECATED is a temporary state leading to removal.
-- 
Mel