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Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 08/11/2011 21:41, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote:
> > I'm talking about stability here. Adobe silently shipped
> > another version and our port become unbuildable because
> > distfile wasn't available anymore.
> The correct answer to this problem is to update the affected
> ports.

That certainly is the correct mid- and long-term solution to
any given occurence.

It still leaves the port broken from the disappearance of the
previous distfile until the maintainer has time to update the
port.  That is likely to be a not-insignificant length of time,
because we cannot reasonably expect port maintainers -- who are
usually volunteers -- to drop everything in order to immediately
fix this sort of problem.