Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:06:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Christian Laursen <xi@borderworlds.dk> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/100910: [maintainer update] Deprecate misc/pointless Message-ID: <20060727090646.B7D2B114F2@talaxian.borderworlds.dk> Resent-Message-ID: <200607270910.k6R9AGcZ009104@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 100910
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: [maintainer update] Deprecate misc/pointless
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: maintainer-update
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Jul 27 09:10:16 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Christian Laursen
>Release: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p1 i386
>Organization:
The Border Worlds
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD talaxian.borderworlds.dk 6.1-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p1 #1: Fri Jun 9 22:07:53 CEST 2006 root@talaxian.borderworlds.dk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TALAXIAN i386
>Description:
There hasn't been a release of pointless in over two and a half years and the
development mailing list has been dead for some time too. Furthermore local
pacthes have been needed since python 2.4 was added to the ports tree.
I seriously doubt that anyone uses this port.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
--- pointless.diff begins here ---
diff -urN /usr/ports/misc/pointless/Makefile pointless/Makefile
--- /usr/ports/misc/pointless/Makefile Tue Nov 15 07:50:10 2005
+++ pointless/Makefile Thu Jul 27 11:01:26 2006
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@
${LOCALBASE}/bin/mpost:${PORTSDIR}/print/teTeX
RUN_DEPENDS= ${BUILD_DEPENDS}
+DEPRECATED= No longer actively maintained
+EXPIRATION_DATE= 2006-10-01
+
USE_GL= yes
USE_PYTHON= yes
--- pointless.diff ends here ---
>Release-Note:
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