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Date:      Tue, 13 Aug 2019 12:56:24 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Martin_Waschb=C3=BCsch?= <martin@waschbuesch.de>
To:        FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: PHP version retirement
Message-ID:  <5EACC301-972C-4567-BE3F-04AA63333F83@waschbuesch.de>
In-Reply-To: <0D48725E-744E-4AD4-9427-DD27061FDB80@kreme.com>
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> Am 13.08.2019 um 08:13 schrieb @lbutlr <kremels@kreme.com>:
>=20
> On 12 Aug 19, at 01:04 , Martin Waschb=C3=BCsch =
<martin@waschbuesch.de> wrote:
>> So, I find it wrong to say, as I understood you, to remove a package =
from the ports tree because otherwise others people, for instance users =
of FreeBSD, would have the *expectation* of receiving support for those =
packages.
>=20
> There is not expectation that any code is being maintained, but there =
*IS* an expectation that the software in ports is being maintained, =
supported, and is functional.

Agreed.
But in which areas would you expect there to be problems for a package =
that was working up date x, got security and bug fixes until date x and =
the actual source code of which will not change after date x?
The only things that come to my mind are changes in packages it depends =
on or changes in the base os.=



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