[ports-i386@freebsd.org: linux-f10-flashplugin-10.3r181.34 failed on i386 9]

[Doug Barton]

On 08/13/2011 01:00, perryh at pluto.rain.com wrote:
> It still leaves the port broken from the disappearance of the
> previous distfile until the maintainer has time to update the
> port. 

Yup.

> That is likely to be a not-insignificant length of time,
> because we cannot reasonably expect port maintainers -- who are
> usually volunteers -- to drop everything in order to immediately
> fix this sort of problem.

For popular ports the intersection of committers who care and are able
to do something useful about it is substantially more than zero.


Doug

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