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Date:      Sun, 19 Aug 2001 22:04:59 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dropping compiler support in -current
Message-ID:  <15232.28747.720718.859688@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010817235549.A86990@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
References:  <sb7d6abe.015@mail.baerum.kommune.no> <20010817235549.A86990@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>

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Christian Weisgerber writes:
 > Idar Tollefsen:
 > 
 > > Speaking of which... If a port is broken, and it probably is
 > > Alpha specific, what is a good way of dealing with it, short
 > > of fixing it yourself?
 > 
 > Good question.
 > 
 > You can report it to the maintainer, who'll probably shrug and point
 > out that he doesn't have an alpha.  You can submit a PR, which will
 > probably be ignored since nobody feels responsible.  You can report
 > the problem on freebsd-ports, where it will be lost under the deluge
 > of new ports and update submissions.  You can send it to this list,
 > where people will probably consider it off topic, since it's a ports
 > problem.
 > 

FWIW, maintainers are usually willing to take a patch...

But I do feel your pain.

Drew

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