From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 9 16:00:56 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E1DFD5FF for ; Fri, 9 May 2014 16:00:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qa0-x236.google.com (mail-qa0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c00::236]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A2D6838C for ; Fri, 9 May 2014 16:00:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qa0-f54.google.com with SMTP id j15so4267611qaq.27 for ; Fri, 09 May 2014 09:00:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=aQDx25SOnIH0Eb6ACjGV3biJvAmvyGgHaVTWsTYg/A0=; b=Vj35ktELipJisOj6jsN+oynfXTlEjJ3jdUGWrHWrrlz1QpMYjQZriDybr48C/zOfBG xnhhjfel/9jsZd7hyNkOPIUuh6FYMcZ/6Tu4UQt/iP12VncuG6wH0k9BBYHUmXB5XZfn bu1r0M60tFxg9IZS5vzvLVX0vsnJFGq4Nh8/hjCk3WyOCZGFjxR4he24qtwXQSTX+zn/ EzwbQHpvxQDK9BFfrUR3JoPFUplUvVYfnOUjfe8h/i0c67LSTpZR7/s3hLSGJsdOj2w3 +QbPLSk8qegkxmrzDMOQnnY71KJu0StbieBUdT/hgdfR9htFpW2HJIAq2hd7NZiw4Wyz FULQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.140.81.48 with SMTP id e45mr14864023qgd.99.1399651254587; Fri, 09 May 2014 09:00:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.126.133 with HTTP; Fri, 9 May 2014 09:00:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <495738D66545411BA78B31A6615EFA48@multiplay.co.uk> References: <495738D66545411BA78B31A6615EFA48@multiplay.co.uk> Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 18:00:54 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Unable to use ports on 8.3 or earlier since r352986 From: Big Lebowski To: Steven Hartland Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18 Cc: "ports@FreeBSD.org Ports" X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 16:00:56 -0000 Well, the EoL was announced in January, and it is what its name is: end of life. There have been changes waiting to happen just for the 8.3 to go away, so when the day was reached, they've been applied. This doesnt seem very bad, but instead, just about time, since there was no reason to hold them off any longer. Regards, BL On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Steven Hartland wrote: > Since the following commit ports is now broken on 8.3 and earlier. > http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=352986 > > Now while 8.3 is now officially EOL as of 9 days ago such a > breakage so soon after the EOL seems very bad. > > Can we consider reverting this and only applying after a > decent amount of time to give people the chance to update > without preventing them from getting port security updates etc? > > Regards > Steve > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >