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

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

On 8/13/2011 1:00 AM, perryh at pluto.rain.com wrote:
> Doug Barton<dougb at freebsd.org>  wrote:
>> On 08/11/2011 21:41, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote:
>>> I'm talking about stability here. Adobe silently shipped
>>> another version and our port become unbuildable because
>>> distfile wasn't available anymore.
>> The correct answer to this problem is to update the affected
>> ports.
>
> That certainly is the correct mid- and long-term solution to
> any given occurence.
>
> It still leaves the port broken from the disappearance of the
> previous distfile until the maintainer has time to update the
> port.  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.

It never ceases to amaze me how quick non-maintainers are to volunteer
maintainters time to drop everything and rebuild a port.

Ted