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From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: ports/96379: PLEASE DO NOT SEND OPENVPN 2.0.7 REMINDERS!
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On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Doug Barton wrote:

> Matthias Andree wrote:
> > Please close ports/96379.
> > 
> > I am not accepting patches to update the FreeBSD/DragonflyBSD port
> > security/openvpn to 2.0.7.
> 
> You may wish to consider whether the effort to continue telling people you
> will not update the port will be lesser, or greater, than the effort
> required to update the port.

My decision (call it ruling if you like) is that I will not ask
thousands of users to update just because a handful of fools can't get
past the version number to the changelog. Most of the requests had
actually been forwarded by committers to ask my feedback...

-- 
Matthias Andree