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Date:      Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:16:02 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Antoine Brodin <antoine@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r347539 - in head: biology/genpak biology/rasmol cad/chipmunk databases/typhoon databases/xmbase-grok devel/asl devel/flick devel/happydoc devel/ixlib devel/p5-Penguin-Easy editors/axe ...
Message-ID:  <20140327111602.GA57802@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <201403082226.s28MQMtI079354@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <201403082226.s28MQMtI079354@svn.freebsd.org>

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On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 10:26:22PM +0000, Antoine Brodin wrote:
> New Revision: 347539
> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/347539
> QAT: https://qat.redports.org/buildarchive/r347539/
> 
> Log:
>   Deprecate a few unmaintained ports (leaf ports, non staged and
>   unmaintained since more than 12 years)

Antoine,

Can you clarify a bit on what does "unmaintained" mean in this context?
Does it mean dead upstream, or MAINTAINER=ports@?

If it's the former, I'm fine with it, but deprecating unbroken, possibly
alive ports merely based on MAINTAINER lines does not seem right to me.

E.g. I've set a few of my ports free (that is, relinquished control over to
ports@) to let others do occasional updates or minor tweaks without having
to wait for me to approve their changes.  It works well enough for simple
ports that are hard to damage by careless committing which had sadly become
quite popular recently.

./danfe



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