Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 08:53:21 -0500 From: Adriaan de Groot <adridg@freebsd.org> To: ports-committers@freebsd.org Cc: svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r460298 - in head: devel/alabastra Message-ID: <3784572.LY0cXeFHoe@a-pc> In-Reply-To: <20180129150955.GA31811@FreeBSD.org> References: <201801291256.w0TCu0Q5035974@repo.freebsd.org> <20180129150955.GA31811@FreeBSD.org>
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On Monday, January 29, 2018 10:09:56 AM EST Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > +++ head/devel/alabastra/Makefile Mon Jan 29 12:56:00 2018
> > (r460298) @@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ DISTNAME= Alabastra-${PORTVERSION}
> > MAINTAINER= ports@FreeBSD.org
> > COMMENT= C++ editor written with Qt 4
> >
> > +DEPRECATED= Abandonware, not used in the ports tree
> > +EXPIRATION_DATE= 2018-03-01
>
> This is a leaf port: the fact that it's not used in the ports tree is not
> relevant. It also fetches, builds, and runs fine. Why deprecate it?
While it's all fun to have lots of things in the ports collection, you can
also ask yourself if a software product that last saw an update to 0.21 --
last commits seem to be in 2009 on sourceforge -- which relies on a toolkit
that reached end-of-life in 2015, with plenty of alternatives, and with no
port maintainer, really should live on.
By all means, Mat, deprecate and move on. If someone actively cares, it can be
picked up again.
Just about anything without a maintainer, and USE_QT4, should be ready for
deprecation. (Which reminds me that audio/rosegarden, for instance, needs an
update, should be handed to kde@, and switched to defaulting to Qt5)
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