Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 05:48:54 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> To: Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org> Cc: Max Brazhnikov <makc@freebsd.org>, Antoine Brodin <antoine@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r501300 - in head: math math/curv misc misc/openvdb Message-ID: <20190513054853.GA49501@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CAP7rwchxDGgoS-vGZs9MVEdpQtRpGfP3PhvtTg_DqhGCxsmOiQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <201905112022.x4BKM9n6069421@repo.freebsd.org> <1562227.MsCH1bHPGx@mercury.ph.man.ac.uk> <CAP7rwchxDGgoS-vGZs9MVEdpQtRpGfP3PhvtTg_DqhGCxsmOiQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 02:27:09PM -0600, Adam Weinberger wrote: > On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 12:37 PM Max Brazhnikov <makc@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Sat, 11 May 2019 20:22:09 +0000 (UTC) Antoine Brodin wrote: > > > Author: antoine > > > Date: Sat May 11 20:22:09 2019 > > > New Revision: 501300 > > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/501300 > > > > > > Log: > > > Remove untested ports > > > > You could have marked them BROKEN instead. > > BROKEN is for ports that used to work and now there's a problem. It > lets end-users keep what they have instead of accidentally building > something known not to work anymore. > > When a port is broken from the start, there's no point in it being in > the tree. It can be re-added if/when it works. The thing is that readding them properly takes extra work and sometimes people might forget to do a repocopy. It would be more appropriate to disconnect them from the build and give original committer couple of days to react, not silently removing them without even providing a log which shows the failure. I totally understand Yuri's frustration here. ./danfe
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