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From: Martin Gignac <martin.gignac@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 08:52:11 -0400
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Subject: Re: Any point to building separate 8.2 and 8.3 packages?
To: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com>
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> A package built on 8.2 will continue to work on 8.3.  The only thing
> that may not work are ports that require kernel sources to build or
> install kernel modules.

Thanks for that clarification. I'll have to pay special attention then
to ports that do so.

-Martin