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Date:      Fri, 1 Oct 2010 11:20:44 +0200
From:      Emanuel Haupt <ehaupt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
Cc:        cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>, Erwin Lansing <erwin@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/sysutils/screenie Makefile pkg-descr
Message-ID:  <20101001112044.b491558c.ehaupt@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20101001023321.GC10070@lonesome.com>
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Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:49:37PM +0200, Emanuel Haupt wrote:
> > Just a thought. How about setup a public database which tracks how
> > long a port is unmaintained/unupdated. Review the ports which
> > should have a maintainer since they are somewhat important.
> 
> Here's a short list (compiled with the TV on, so possibly not
> accurate):
> 
>   audio/discid			     affects gnome
>   graphics/aalib             affects gnome, kde
>   graphics/linux-cairo       affects acroread9, others
>   graphics/sane-backends     affects kde
>   lang/ezm3                  affects cvsup
>   lang/expect                affects various ports
>   misc/getopt                affects gnome, eclipse, many others
>   misc/localedata            affects nvidia-driver and others
>   net/cvsup
>   print/freetype             affects docproj and others
>   print/gutenprint           affects gnome-fifth-toe
>   security/openssh-portable
>   textproc/xerces-c2         affects 15 ports
>   x11-toolkits/gtkglarea     affects ~20 ports
> 
> I'm sure there are many more that have useful dependencies.

Maybe we could put this in on a wiki (high profile unmaintained ports,
maintainers wanted) page and point users at it.

Emanuel



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