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Date:      Sun, 24 Mar 2002 14:48:57 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   HEADS UP: Do not break the ports collection
Message-ID:  <20020324144857.A61026@xor.obsecurity.org>

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Dear ports committers,

Since we are approaching the release of the 5.0-CURRENT Developer
Preview 1 snapshot, it is important that we keep the ports collection
in good condition.

Therefore, if you are considering committing an update or change to an
'important' port (one which is widely used, or depended on by a lot of
other ports), please:

a) Be especially careful to test your change as much as possible.

b) Regularly check http://bento.freebsd.org AND
http://beta.freebsd.org (alpha package building errors) to keep an eye
on ports to which you have recently committed, and fix any breakage
which comes up.

c) Consult with portmgr@ before committing really big changes
(e.g. GNOME/KDE upgrades, changes to core ports like libtool, etc).

At this stage we're not intending to have an extended formal freeze
period, but we might choose to do one later.

Kris
Portmgr

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