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Date:      Mon, 28 Nov 2005 10:00:06 -0500
From:      Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>
To:        freebsd ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Subversion 1.3.0-rc2
Message-ID:  <6364140F-2C30-489B-9B38-BFF503F66499@khera.org>
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References:  <e2c462550511280549o5c102617x19a9c62c72347e23@mail.gmail.com>

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On Nov 28, 2005, at 8:49 AM, Mischa Peters wrote:

> It would also be nice to know why there is an RC in /usr/ports, and
> why there isn't a subversion-devel tree.
>

Thanks to your earlier warning, I avoided upgrading subversion...

I too also wonder about why stable port versions are replaced with  
pre-release software in ports.  This seems like just a bad choice by  
the maintainer, but I'm not sure if it violates any policies of the  
ports system.  Perhaps there should be some policy regarding  
stability of software.





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