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[Oliver Eikemeier]

Doug Barton wrote:

> I find this line of reasoning very interesting in light of the 
> disagreement I'm currently having with eik about repo copying a port 
> I'm working on. On the one hand, you and he are arguing that it's 
> perfectly ok to break POLA in -stable because the new stuff is better, 
> and the old stuff sucked anyway.

Ehm, could you point me to the post where I said that? I seem to suffer 
from amnesia. Or is this your interpretion of

   "I will add an -c option to the C pkg_version code ASAP. I believe 
backing this out won't be beneficial for -STABLE users, since they'll 
loose a lot of features (and speed)."

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> This is exactly the opposite of what it should be. In the past, the 
> very definition of a -stable branch included that features were NEVER 
> removed. It doesn't matter how much YOU as an individual developer 
> don't like a feature, you have absolutely no way of knowing how many 
> users depend on it, how they are using it, etc.

What is your point here? I made a mistake that I recognized only in the 
last moment, and I'm working on fixing it. So?

-Oliver

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