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Date:      Sat, 16 May 2020 10:44:19 +0200
From:      Stefan Ehmann <shoesoft@gmx.net>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Cc:        "Edward Sanford Sutton, III" <mirror176@hotmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Are broken ports retested before performing scheduled removal?
Message-ID:  <15810795.vxEf1mJfsr@walrus.pepperland>
In-Reply-To: <c0622ac7-d4bb-e133-ac71-35cc4de56d89@hotmail.com>
References:  <c0622ac7-d4bb-e133-ac71-35cc4de56d89@hotmail.com>

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On Thursday, May 14, 2020 1:24:17 AM CEST Edward Sanford Sutton, III wrote=
:
>   games/oneko was recently removed as it was marked broken due to being
> unfetchable. I tried an old copy of the ports tree I had where it was
> marked as such and `make fetch -DTRYBROKEN` succeeded. Was there an
> error recorded for this and was it ever retested? Is this just a side
> effect of having a failure and no maintainer?
>   If being removed as unfetchable, wouldn't a better MOVED entry be to
> say it was unfetchable (for more than 6 months) instead of just broken
> for more than 6 months?
> Thanks for feedback

I've recently asked myself the same question:

multimedia/gpac-mp4box is flagged
BROKEN=3Dunfetchable
DEPRECATED=3DBroken for more than 6 months

multimedia/gpac-libgpac uses the same distfile from the same mirror and is=
 not
marked broken.

I figured once a port is marked unfetchable, it will be deleted, even it i=
s a
transient failure. Of course, unless someone opens a bug report.







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