From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 30 15:25:00 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26D21106564A; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:25:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from tower.berklix.org (tower.berklix.org [83.236.223.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E3338FC17; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:24:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mart.js.berklix.net (pD9FBF75C.dip.t-dialin.net [217.251.247.92]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id p7UFOuBF041052; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:24:57 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by mart.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p7UFOifb010155; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:24:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p7UFOc6Q008169; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:24:44 GMT (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <201108301524.p7UFOc6Q008169@fire.js.berklix.net> To: Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://www.berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://www.berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:06:52 +0200." <4E5CC44C.3070604@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:24:38 +0200 Sender: jhs@berklix.com Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Matthias Andree Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/mail/procmail Makefile X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:25:00 -0000 Matthias Andree wrote: > Am 30.08.2011 10:23, schrieb Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh: > > sunpoet 2011-08-30 08:23:18 UTC > > > > FreeBSD ports repository > > > > Modified files: > > mail/procmail Makefile > > Log: > > - Take maintainership > > > > Revision Changes Path > > 1.60 +1 -1 ports/mail/procmail/Makefile > > I was just about to grab the port, deprecate and set two months > expiration date. Sorry No, it would be most irresponsible to consider a timeout of 2 months ! Procmail has been compiling regularly, working fine & vitaly necessary here for a decade. If one were considering to toss out such a vital tool, one should give a warning of a release or 2. (*) > Now that you're maintaining it I seek you to please let this > unmaintained unclean code from our FreeBSD ports world and deprecate it. Sunpoet please ignore Matthias ! Take your time. > The code is unmaintainable, hasn't seen maintenance in a decade, > is hard to use properly because of its fall-through "error handling" > (actually nonhandling) behaviour, It's not hard to use, Read the manual & learn. Examples http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/dots/.procmailrc http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/dots/.procmailrc.lists more in: http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/dots/ > and should finally disappear. No > Please add > > DEPRECATED= use mail/maildrop instead No, > EXPIRATION_DATE= 2011-10-31 (*) Irresponsible lack of warning ! Lots of users of releases dont even read ports@ ( Reminds me of the Hitch Hikers Guide episode where the vogons come to destroy the earth, & claim due warning was lodged in Alpha Centauri ;-) Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below, not above; Indent with "> "; Cumulative like a play script. Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable.