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From: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>
To: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/bison Makefile distinfo ports/devel/bison/files patch-getargs.c patch-reader.c
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On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 05:58:33PM -0800, David E. O'Brien wrote:
>   Log:
>   This PORTEPOCH for life crap is stupid.
>   Back out the downgrade, I would have never agreed to it if I had know...
>   This leaves a window of downgradededness 18 hours -- people can just live
>   with that.

Once rules are set, you're not supposed to break them.  If you
have a problem with the rule, bring it up on ports@ and suggest a
better way to do things.  The fact is we need PORTEPOCH to ensure
forward versioning always.  Please put it back in this port.

Regards,
-- 
wca

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