ports/177644: building mail/thunderbird fails

[Jan Beich]

The following reply was made to PR ports/177644; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jan Beich <jbeich at tormail.org>
To: Tsurutani Naoki <turutani at scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/177644: building mail/thunderbird fails
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:52:41 +0300

 Tsurutani Naoki <turutani at scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp> writes:
 
 > I am very sorry, for I missed the message.
 > I thought no significant change is applied to the minor release.
 
 Some 8.2 workarounds were actually used by 7.x which meant they couldn't
 have been dropped at esr17 branch point. And extending the support for
 7.x/8.2 until esr24 in September was extra maintainance without
 pointyhat (or portmgr) help.
 
 > I do not want to update my OS, for I am apprehensive that the result
 > of some important
 > calculation might be effected.  If it would not happen, I can update
 > to recent 8-STABLE...
 
 There're a few more ways out:
   1/ apply the pointed out base commits and run regression tests
   2/ revert the pointed out gecko commits and partly maintain yourself
   3/ be paranoiac and not update at all
 
 Exactly why ports updates or operator running unrelated software cannot
 alter the calculation results is smth missing from the context.