From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Nov 7 09:57:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA20938 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 09:57:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA20926; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 09:57:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA00555; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 12:55:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 12:55:39 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: Bill Fenner cc: Satoshi Asami , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/misc/display Makefile In-Reply-To: <199811071718.JAA23005@mango.parc.xerox.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Bill Fenner wrote: > Do you think it's a good idea to label a port BROKEN based on one sample? > I just fetched this port from ftp.uu.net just fine, and the distfile survey > fetched it fine twice a month for the last year. Yeah, and the previous one, dsssl-docbook, that server is ALWAYS up and down like a yoyo. Norm Walsh distributes that stuff, and maintains it. It really doesn't sound reasonable to mark things like that broken, because there doesn't seem to be a fix (and it's not really broken). > > Bill > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message