Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2022 20:20:32 +1000 From: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> To: FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Installed unmaintained ports Message-ID: <20221001102032.ssxqg4ib3fuu7xj5@ozzmosis.com>
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Is there a way to list all Ports I have installed that don't have a maintainer? I'm a bit concerned that genuinely useful Ports are disappearing from the tree, and wonder if more can be done to encourage new maintainers. I'd also like to see a "FreeBSD Maintainers Guide" or similar as I found working with FreeBSD Bugzilla recently extremely non-intuitive. I'm sure this gets easier with practice but as the maintainer of a single solitary port that rarely requires updating but which required a distfile URL change recently, I was completely lost. Particularly the part where "maintainer-approval" flag must be set to "+"! Maybe there's a guide somewhere that I've missed. Anyway, my question is prompted by ftp/axel recently being removed from Ports. It was erroneously noted that upstream was dead in ports/MOVED: $ grep axel MOVED | grep 2022 net-p2p/awgg||2022-09-30|Has expired: Depends on expired ftp/axel ftp/axel||2022-09-30|Has expired: Last release in 2009 and dead upstream, please consider using www/aria2 However a quick web search shows the project is still alive: https://github.com/axel-download-accelerator/axel Another reason given was the port lacks HTTPS support: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=263905 But should that matter? That seems like an arbitrary reason for removal. Anyway, it's also not true of recent versions. Is dead upstream sufficient reason to remove a port? I'm listed as the maintainer of editors/uemacs. The source code is now 26 years old! The author, Daniel M. Lawrence, died in 2010. (IIRC the only reason I'm listed as maintainer of editors/uemacs is because I submitted a trivial patch for it to continue builing with Clang when FreeBSD stopped using GCC.) Regards Andrew
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