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Date:      Wed, 28 Feb 2024 21:00:16 +0100
From:      Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
To:        Florian Smeets <flo@FreeBSD.org>, ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Proposed ports deprecation and removal policy
Message-ID:  <fb42e7b5-be11-4d6f-bacd-90bfd361ed48@quip.cz>
In-Reply-To: <435edf7c-a956-4317-b327-3372de70dbef@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <435edf7c-a956-4317-b327-3372de70dbef@FreeBSD.org>

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On 28/02/2024 20:22, Florian Smeets wrote:

> Ports can be removed immediately if one of the following conditions is met:
> 
> - Upstream distfile is no longer available from the original 
> source/mirror (Our and other distcaches e.g. Debian, Gentoo, etc do not 
> count as "available")

I miss some sort of time frame like in the following cases. The way the 
sentence is written now, it looks like there may be an immediate removal 
on the first day of the outage.

> - Upstream WWW is unavailable: deprecate, remove after 3 months
> - BROKEN for more than 6 months
> - has known vulnerabilities that weren’t addressed in the ports tree for 
> more than 3 months

Kind regards
Miroslav Lachman



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