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Old 12th September 2010
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The Gnash developers are always going to be at least one step behind Adobe and as time goes on the OpenBSD port will lose functionality. From what you describe, I would only encourage my worst enemies to become the OpenBSD port maintainer for Gnash.

The OP of this thread likely had no idea what he was getting into and in the absence of the subsequent information provided by Oko would just decide that OpenBSD doesn't work very well.

A thought on how to deal with this might be to adapt what Slackware does.
They maintain a "Testing" and "Pasture" section.

I think Gnash would be appropriate for "Testing"
As an example of port that would be appropriate for "Pasture" I would nominate FBpanel. I believe the FBpanel developer joined the LXDE project and used the FBpanel code as a base for LXpanel. The FBpanel appears to be essentially archived with no active development. I submitted a patch I found to the maintainer who applied the patch and promptly resigned
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2009-05-30 15:34:16 by Landry Breuil | Files touched by this commit (2)

Log message:
Fix issue where all desktop files were duplicated in menus, due to
g_get_system_data_dirs() reporting usr/local/share twice, cf
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func...31&atid=513125
Reported & fix found by "J. Scott Heppler" ****** at earthlink.net,
thanks!
While here, drop maintainership. I don't want to be responsible for
an app with such a crappy code.
In my opinion FBpanel should be put out to pasture (or dropped) and the current FBpanel port maintainer should look hard at LXpanel
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