Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 14:55:47 +0200 From: Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> To: <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Disappearing programs: Is FreeBSD ports unmaintained? Message-ID: <537ca253.L5UAU8FjzLGouZBI%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
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Hi,
the programs star and smake seem to have disappeared from the FreeBSD ports
collection.
The supposed reason is: "no longer compiles"....
but it seems that the real reason is that somebody did modify the build system
in a way that harms portability and this way caused a FreeBSD change
(introducing the compiler "clang" that causes compatibilty problems) to be the
reason for a package that no longer compiles.
Isn't it obvious to check more recent version of the sources and to check
whether _unmodified_ sources compile before removing software from the
collection?
Jörg
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