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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@iafrica.com>
To: Dirk Froemberg <dirk@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: lesstif port doesn't install libXm.so.1 ? 
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On Thu, 18 Feb 1999 13:28:25 +0100, Dirk Froemberg wrote:

> I don't think the minors should be striped, since we're having a lot of
> people using 2.2.x.

This means we're leaving a port's packaging details broken to keep
support of a legacy branch alive. That sounds like it's out of line with
our support policy for the ports tree.

If the port can't package correctly for both, it should be made to
package for ELF.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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