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Date:      Wed, 28 Feb 2024 21:13:35 +0100
From:      Florian Smeets <flo@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>, ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Proposed ports deprecation and removal policy
Message-ID:  <1500d4f4-2bdb-4d3b-8848-900346f4d194@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <fb42e7b5-be11-4d6f-bacd-90bfd361ed48@quip.cz>
References:  <435edf7c-a956-4317-b327-3372de70dbef@FreeBSD.org> <fb42e7b5-be11-4d6f-bacd-90bfd361ed48@quip.cz>

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On 28.02.24 21:00, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> 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.
> 

Good point. Yeah, it certainly isn't the intention to remove it 
immediately. I will make a note to add a time frame. I'm thinking 4 
weeks, as that feels long for a site to go away and reappear, but we 
might just make it 3 months as with most of the other points.

Thanks
Florian



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