how to "downgrade" a port in the tree

[John Nielsen]

Hi folks-

I have a policy/procedure question-

I'm not much of a programmer, but I am the port maintainer for the 
mail/hotwayd port.  The version in the tree is the latest available 
version, hotwayd 0.8.  However, there are some serious bugs in this version 
that result in mangled e-mail headers.

The author does not appear to be actively maintaining the port, since there 
have been no changes to the webpage (http://hotwayd.sourceforge.net) since 
February.  I am not aware of anyone else working on these bugs at present.

The previous version of the software, hotwayd 0.74, works well (albeit with 
a smaller advertised feature set).  I never submitted a port for 0.74, only 
0.71.  I think the best thing would be to have 0.74 in the ports tree.  I'm 
happy to submit a port-maintainer patch, but I wanted to see if there were 
any special considerations for going down a version.  What is the best 
place to notify end-users of the situation? (UPDATING?)  Is there a way to 
convince portupgrade that the .74 version is better than the .80 version 
for existing installations?

Thanks for any input.  Please CC me as I'm not on the list.

JN