FreeBSD ports: 1 unfetchable distfiles: shells/ksh93

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 04:17:52PM -0700, Bill Fenner wrote:
> 
> >While you are looking at this issue -- is there any way a request to the
> >port 
> >maintainer could be initiated, asking the maintainer to regularly check the 
> >status of the port when the port is broken (file cannot be fetched) to bring
> >the port up todate?
> 
> Normally, the distfile survey would send a periodic email to
> maintainers of ports that are unfetchable; however, it doesn't
> send email about ports that are marked "BROKEN".  This has an
> unfortunate interaction with ports that are marked BROKEN because
> they're unfetchable.

However, the maintainer will have received and ignored at least one,
and possibly several emails about the broken status of their port
before it ever gets to the stage of being marked BROKEN.

Kris
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