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Old 18th May 2008
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Originally Posted by shep View Post
The OpenBSD FAQ tends to push packages over ports but I wonder why something as large and frequently used as a browser is not aggressively updated?
Work on ported applications to OpenBSD is always done to -current first. The third-party Ports Tracker indicates that seamonkey-1.1.9 was checked into CVS in April -- apparently too late to make it into the 4.3-release:

http://openports.se/www/seamonkey

Note that 1.1.9 is available to -current users now.

Given personnel restraints, pushing updates down into the -release or -stable branches is no longer done. Perhaps if sufficient funds or donations become available, this issue can be revisited, but it is not feasible at this point given both the number of people who work on the packages/ports system & the six-month release cycle. If you wish to communicate with the port maintainer, you can find who to contact at the above link, or if you have the ports tree installed, you can find the same information at:
Code:
$ cd /usr/ports/www/seamonkey
$ make show=MAINTAINER
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