From: Darren Spruell (phatbuckettgmail.com)
Date: Wed Dec 12 2007 - 14:29:39 CST

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On Dec 12, 2007 1:11 PM, knitti <knittigmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/12/07, Darren Spruell <phatbuckettgmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Why -current? I thought what had fallen behind from lack of resources
> > was binary packages. Surely OPENBSD_4_2 (stable branch of ports tree)
> > still has updated ports.
> >
> > Just build -stable packages from ports (like you did in the olden days.)
>
> to quote from the original mail from Nikolay Sturm (thanks to him for doing
> this or much of it over some years) to misc:
> "as you might have noticed, -stable ports have not been properly updated
> in the last few months. Due to lack of resources, especially a
> responsible maintainer, you cannot expect any updates to -stable for the
> foreseeable future. Although some updates might happen, -stable should
> be considered unmaintained."

Gah, I'll crawl back under my rock. Misremembered.

DS

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