BROKEN ports scheduled for removal

[parv]

in message <20030328222716.GC23305 at rot13.obsecurity.org>, wrote Kris
Kennaway thusly...
>
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 01:20:26PM -0500, parv wrote:
> > >
> > > The following ports have been marked BROKEN for at least
> > > 4 months and are scheduled for removal after May 1 2003.
> > 
> > Kris, would there be any chance of removing a port which doesn't
> > build & has a pr pending for almost an year?
...
> >   http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/37730
> 
> It builds fine on stock 4.x, but fails on 5.0.  I'll mark it
> BROKEN on 5.0.  I can't think of an easy way to indicate that it
> does not compile with newer perl versions.  We probably need
> a BUILD_CONFLICTS directive similar to the runtime (package)
> conflicts patches I am testing.

Ah! Thanks Kris.  I wouldn't have any chance of knowing the above
w/o your "BROKEN ports scheduled for removal" message.

Now i know that i had been chasing a "partial bug", i can sleep now
better.  I withdraw my request to remove the editors/nvi-perl port.


  - parv

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