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Date:      Thu, 4 Jul 1996 16:12:20 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gripes
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.91.960704161136.12809B-100000@skipper.eng.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199607041914.MAA01959@tao.thought.org>

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On Thu, 4 Jul 1996, Gary Kline wrote:

> 
> This morning I failed when trying to fetch jpeg-6 using the latest 
> ``-current'' ports makefiles.
> 
> The script is looking to ftp back jpeg-6 when it _should_ be looking
> for jpeg-6a.  ---Some weeks ago I retrieved the latest jpeg and thus
> knew the correct filename.
> 
> This snippet is from my FreeBSD-current/ports/graphics/jpeg/Makefile::
> 
> #
> # $Id: Makefile,v 1.10 1995/10/11 08:21:33 asami Exp $
> #
> 
> ###DISTNAME=       jpegsrc.v6
> DISTNAME=       jpegsrc.v6a
> 
> 
> Please, people!  A few minutes of real-world testing would save
> man-centuries of users trying to figure out what the blazes went
> wrong....

You don't figure that back in October of 1995 (when that port was last 
touched) the current version WAS 6?

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