ports/180914: broken: packages-8-stable

[Bugs]

>Number:         180914
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       broken: packages-8-stable
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jul 28 22:50:01 UTC 2013
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Bugs
>Release:        8-stable
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
Lots of packages many people run are missing from:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-stable/All/
Including at minimum:

ImageMagick
firefox
gimp
monotone
mplayer
thunderbird
virtualbox-ose
vlc
wireshark
xorg

Perhaps something broke?
Shouldn't there be infrastructure checks for this
before overwriting a previously good (using some list
of major packages) run on FTP, thus making attempted
installs and trial runs useless for many folks?

>How-To-Repeat:
Addendum: Please close my former miscategoried bug of the same name, there appears to be no facility to allow users to correct/update their bug reports.
>Fix:


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