Problem in ports/multimedia/handbrake - seemingly wrong version (0.6.2 vice 0.7.1)

[Donald T Hayford]

When I try to install the multimedia/handbrake port, I get the following 
error message:
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===>  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
=> HandBrake-0.6.2-src.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in 
/usr/ports/distfiles/.
=> Attempting to fetch from http://people.via.ecp.fr/~titer/handbrake/.
fetch: 
http://people.via.ecp.fr/~titer/handbrake/HandBrake-0.6.2-src.tar.gz: 
Not Found
=> Attempting to fetch from 
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/.
fetch: 
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/HandBrake-0.6.2-src.tar.gz: 
File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
=> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
=> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/handbrake.
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When I go to the URL, I find that the only version available is 0.7.1, 
which was apparently released 2/24/2006.  The earlier version is 
probably available through some sort of source control, but I wasn't 
smart enough to figure out what/where/how.

Being new to FreeBSD, I don't know the proper procedure in this case. 

Should I report this to someone?  Or is taken care of in some other 
way?  Or is this the wrong forum?

Can I just manually edit the port Makefile and distinfo file to have the 
correct version/size/MD5 etc?  Or is this too simplistic a fix that will 
screw up other things?

As always,
Thanks for your support

Don Hayford