From owner-cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 17 20:46:16 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 1033) id 974DD1065673; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:46:16 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:46:16 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev To: Alex Dupre Message-ID: <20120217204616.GB47274@FreeBSD.org> References: <201202171225.q1HCPPGo024260@repoman.freebsd.org> <4F3E4CED.1050103@FreeBSD.org> <4F3E4EDD.5080608@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F3E4EDD.5080608@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: Dirk Meyer , cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, Doug Barton , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/graphics/libungif Makefile X-BeenThere: cvs-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the ports tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:46:16 -0000 On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 01:58:05PM +0100, Alex Dupre wrote: > Doug Barton wrote: > >I admire your ambition, but there are still hundreds of ports that > >depend on libungif. They need to be changed to giflib before libungif > >can be deprecated. > > > >This (and the expiration_date) need to be backed out immediately. > > Hmmm, I don't agree with you completely. DEPRECATION seems perfectly > correct to me, the port is set deprecated so users and maintainers know > they should switch to the recommended giflib. We can argue on > EXPIRATION_DATE, I imagine that if it's set someone has patches for all > depending ports and they will be committed before that date. +1. It should be deprecated. At most, EXPIRATION_DATE could probably be extended a bit to allow every consumer to switch, but no reason to back out this commit completely. We should have one definitive (read: official) GIF provider in the Tree. ./danfe