there might be a commercial company which does this, i don't know. but
AFAIK no open source project does this.

problem: how to track diverse version numbers in multiple open source
projects which are used to build ports
solution: a webpage hosted somewhere which has a open editable wiki
which has fixed DISTNAME/PKGNAME (except for name changes), and allows
editing the stable version numbers. (possibly changed HOMEPAGE or
MASTER_SITE)

i.e devel->geotiff->1.4.0
(right now the geotiff version in -current is 1.3.0)

there are just too many ports, and too many version changes, and too
few people. and ports are ever-growing.

this allows interested porters to parse the webpage such that we can
1) quickly know which ports are lagging behind
2) can do a quick make fetch and make makesum

this is openbsd specific only. any interest in this?

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