On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 11:33:08 +0200 ale...@mail.com: > I am working on my first port, and version 0.6.3 broke big endian > support. The software’s latest version is still broken on big endian. > The reason for this is stated in the change log as removing endian > specific code. The software compiles fine but does not function > correctly, giving errors. > > Version 0.6.2 works on big endian, which is what I’ll be using this > software on a lot. > > NetBSD has a port of the newest version of this software. It looks > like it wasn’t properly tested because they use no patches in their > port yet produce PowerPC binaries. This is unconfirmed however > because I don’t use NetBSD. >
I guess this depend of the port and how old the release you want to include is. For a network daemon it's better if it's up to date but for a game or non network tool, I think it's possible to have an older version.