ports/66892: possible bug in philosophy of ports/MOVED

[Oliver Eikemeier]

The following reply was made to PR ports/66892; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier at fillmore-labs.com>
To: Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, dan at langille.org,
	portmgr at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/66892: possible bug in philosophy of ports/MOVED
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 18:15:06 +0200

 Mark Linimon wrote:
 
 > 	I guess I can work around this in portsmon ... somehow.  But
 > 	shouldn't there be some kind of notation added to MOVED when
 > 	something gets reintroduced?  (I can imagine this problem
 > 	affecting FreshPorts as well).
 
 Yep. I don't know what to check for in MOVEDlint, and I'm not sure what
 the proper semantics are: has OpenLDAP 2.0 moved to OpenLDAP 2.1, or
 is it simply deleted?
 
 We have to clarify that for MOVED to be useful for automated tools.
 
 -Oliver