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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 07:20:13 +0100
From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com>
To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org,Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de>
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Subject: Re: Are ports supposed to build and run on 10-CURRENT?
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It's worth bearing in mind that head becomes a release every so often.  If you don't make sure your ports build there, it makes life harder for people running and testing it, and makes for a mad rush and scramble to fix broken ports before a major release.

Since the port can often be fixed with a USE_GCC=any conditional on OSVERSION, I must question how much of a hardship it really is...

Chris