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Date:      Sat, 7 Nov 1998 12:55:39 -0500 (EST)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>
To:        Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
Cc:        Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/misc/display Makefile 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811071253520.306-100000@picnic.mat.net>
In-Reply-To: <199811071718.JAA23005@mango.parc.xerox.com>

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On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Bill Fenner wrote:

> Do you think it's a good idea to label a port BROKEN based on one sample?
> I just fetched this port from ftp.uu.net just fine, and the distfile survey
> fetched it fine twice a month for the last year.

Yeah, and the previous one, dsssl-docbook, that server is ALWAYS up and
down like a yoyo.  Norm Walsh distributes that stuff, and maintains it.
It really doesn't sound reasonable to mark things like that broken,
because there doesn't seem to be a fix (and it's not really broken).

> 
>   Bill
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