From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Sep 15 10:17:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3497337B400 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 10:17:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (wwweasel.geeksrus.net [64.8.210.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6353643E65 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 10:17:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alane@wwweasel.geeksrus.net) Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g8FHHjRG069565 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 13:17:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from alane@wwweasel.geeksrus.net) Received: (from alane@localhost) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g8FHHjQ3069564 for ports@freebsd.org; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 13:17:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from alane) Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 13:17:16 -0400 From: AlanE To: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Deleting old ports (Re: cvs commit: ports/audio Makefile ports/sysutils Makefile ports/sysutils/koncd Makefile distinfo pkg-comment pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/sysutils/koncd/files patch-Makefile.in patch-koncd-Makefile.in patch-koncd-mastercd_gui.h ports/audio/knapster ...) Message-ID: <20020915171716.GA69522@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> Reply-To: alane@geeksrus.net References: <200209142101.g8EL1gXp070381@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020914215905.GA76182@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020915160331.GA2115@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <20020915171534.GA2960@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020915171534.GA2960@xor.obsecurity.org> X-message-flag: Magic 8-Ball says "Outlook not so good." I'll ask it about Exchange next. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 10:15:35AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: >On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 12:03:31PM -0400, AlanE at FreeBSD.org wrote: > >> >> 2. knapster is dead, as napster is dead. >> > >> >Last time I tried it, there were other unofficial napster servers >> >available, so the clients were still useful. Is this no longer the >> >case? >> > >> >Kris >> >> Maintainer is no longer maintaining it, agreed to deletion. > >I appreciate that you want to clean up old KDE2 ports, but I think >you're being rather too aggressive about it. The usual procedure that >is followed here is to mark the port FORBIDDEN for a few months and >see if anyone comes forward with an update. If no-one does after that >time period has elapsed, then we know it's really unsupported by the >ports community and can delete it. > >Kris Will told me he wanted the whole thing cleaned up before the ports freeze, so that's what I'm trying to do. -- Alan Eldridge Unix/C(++) IT Pro, 20 yrs, seeking new employment. (http://wwweasel.geeksrus.net/~alane/resume.txt) KDE, KDE-FreeBSD Teams (http://www.kde.org, http://freebsd.kde.org/) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message