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Date:      Wed, 5 Sep 2001 13:38:21 +0200
From:      Johann Visagie <johann@egenetics.com>
To:        ftpq@tranchant.freeserve.co.uk
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: wrong ftpq version!
Message-ID:  <20010905133820.F52406@fling.sanbi.ac.za>
In-Reply-To: <200109041346.f84DkvH01197@dymwsm10.mailwatch.com>; from mtranch2@ford.com on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 09:46:20AM -0400
References:  <200109041346.f84DkvH01197@dymwsm10.mailwatch.com>

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Tranchant, Mark (M.A.) on 2001-09-04 (Tue) at 09:46:20 -0400:
> 
> I maintain ftpq:
> 
> http://www.tranchant.freeserve.co.uk/ftpq.html
>
> FreeBSD has been keeping its port of this up to date for a long
> time. However, I've recently split the development into a stable and a
> development branch. Despite warnings all over my web page, you guys have
> taken the unstable 1.10 version for your port.
>
> Please don't do this - stick with 1.04 (needs a similar patch to move
> sys/types.h up the #include order), or wait 24 hours and pull down 1.05,
> which should compile without modification.

Thanks for letting us know...

> How can I ensure you take an appropriate stable version in future, whilst
> still releasing very unstable evaluation and development versions?

Question to the -ports list:

Is it worth going to the trouble of doing a repo copy and maintaining both
ftpq and ftpq-devel ports, or would it be better simply to downgrade the ftpq
port to 1.05 and bump PORTEPOCH?

-- V

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