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Date:      Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:14:08 +1100
From:      Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Pierre Guinoiseau <pierre@guinoiseau.eu>, freebsd-perl@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, "Philip M. Gollucci" <pgollucci@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/lang Makefile ports/Mk bsd.perl.mk ports/lang/perl5.8 Makefile Makefile.man distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/lang/perl5.8/files patch-Configure patch-INST_PREFIX.t patch-MM_Any.pm patch-bug64562 ...
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On 2012-Mar-11 14:06:00 -0700, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>On 03/09/2012 05:43, Pierre Guinoiseau wrote:
>> there was no DEPRECATED nor EXPIRATION_DATE set prior to lang/perl5.8 and
>> lang/perl5.10 removal, and there was no warning whatsoever on freebsd-po=
rts@ nor
>> freebsd-ports-announce@ lists. Perl is a rather critical piece of softwa=
re,

I agree with these sentiments.

>I'm sort of surprised that more people have not spoken up about this.

Well, I found out about it when my nightly "make index" produced a
shower of errors.  I found the relevant commit, worked out how to
clean up and moved on.  I didn't speak up because I didn't think it
would help by then.  portmaster made this mostly painless (though I'm
not sure if going from 5.10 to 5.14 has broken any of my scripts).

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Peter Jeremy

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