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Date:      Fri, 23 Feb 2001 12:30:30 +0200
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.org>, ports@FreeBSD.org, stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: end of 3-stable support
Message-ID:  <20010223123030.E1899@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
In-Reply-To: <3A963091.8058B7D@FreeBSD.org>; from sobomax@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:42:41AM %2B0200
References:  <200102230817.f1N8HN506575@vader.clickarray.com> <3A963091.8058B7D@FreeBSD.org>

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On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:42:41AM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> Satoshi Asami wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > As you may all know, the 3-stable branch has slowly being phased out
> > for a while now.  This is true for both the tree itself and the ports
> > collection; fewer and fewer ports committers have 3-stable machines to
> > test with, and the list of build errors kept growing little by little.
> >
> > Thus, I have decided to stop building 3-stable packages.  The next run
> > which starts in a few hours will be the last one for 3-stable.  Of
> > course, this last set of packages will be left on ftp.FreeBSD.org for
> > a long time, just like the last set of 2.2.* packages.
> >
> > Thanks for your help.  We can now concentrate all our resources on
> > only two branches.  (For a while anyway. ;)
> 
> Cool. Please indicate when you have last run completed, so we can start
> removing 3-stable specific hacks from ports (FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS, USE_NEWGCC,
> etc).

Hmm.. I don't really think Satoshi meant we are completely stopping support
for 3.x in the Ports collection; just packages for the present.

Or am I wrong?

G'luck,
Peter

-- 
This sentence every third, but it still comprehensible.

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