From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 3 02:15:45 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B8AA67F2 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2014 02:15:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qa0-x232.google.com (mail-qa0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c00::232]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 764AD2D67 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2014 02:15:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qa0-f50.google.com with SMTP id m5so9487464qaj.23 for ; Wed, 02 Jul 2014 19:15:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=eitanadler.com; s=0xdeadbeef; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=IkvhnYyyBwYCy3ltzYpU6ILtFumgRuoLMjHwpeVb09w=; b=QtQH1PhJAAr7DDtrp7mInlsXasUXcurJY5m3stYxr42QO9hEMUQbmKWoh9Rb8XoJqK QdS4502ZWLaEbe8CSw1Nxil474MRDIBRXJUuqVnA8PVrYzsp/FxpSE/ZjJBESDY6xkBX UAODxf4K9z7wOG+ooaNPOWqMItodh3qAeart0= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=IkvhnYyyBwYCy3ltzYpU6ILtFumgRuoLMjHwpeVb09w=; b=L4rDqrzAzgkG+D5RcmTNKEFzwew/cgV5vzr1bpTaDSEpsM8oSwVAWVap1VD+/13p10 HeMqSFKCmlnTwiiN420Ii7HKItpbw5etUxTYFLAO6+s8Rp2udHTYNZwwL6yy38moNjLb pxmZ7ttEOvj4cvJyPuWgCu9XUwoL+KH7TPewd3EDlhunkVrAFS5mMlKzwYw1vEOaIrOF eB+VRW2cfWoJ9oNU50fSXo5wjcoeHGvpYXpNpEEwBjC5EzNgXwKa73dvotky0Q3oIXF2 KtlIQlHuuNPrDmH0L+M3bYEQU+TsPbBEMHcROXyO36dZ1K3mv8ya7aDCbaytRPYq+2tQ c4OA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmKSsLSb1KLVaNDDL18u79kEKEUUw+C/o3hJVxeBbV6/TXKHuc+WdY/TVjPlq8acevtLwhq X-Received: by 10.229.51.201 with SMTP id e9mr2923587qcg.2.1404353744574; Wed, 02 Jul 2014 19:15:44 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.96.88.132 with HTTP; Wed, 2 Jul 2014 19:15:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20140703003924.GA6592@exhan.dylanleigh.net> References: <20140703003924.GA6592@exhan.dylanleigh.net> From: Eitan Adler Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 19:15:14 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Future of (upstream unmaintained) sysutils/autopsy port To: Dylan Leigh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: ports@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 02:15:45 -0000 On 2 July 2014 17:39, Dylan Leigh wrote: > Is there any policy on keeping ports where upstream is not > maintained and the software itself is depreciated (except to > open and export old files)? Do we still want to keep such a port > in the active tree? It is fine to maintain unchanged upstream ports provided they have an active downstream maintainer. The only concern is patches: the ports tree must not become a repo by which the upstream port is continued to be developed. If you just want to make sure that the port remains "available" this is perfectly fine. -- Eitan Adler