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Date:      Wed, 14 Sep 2016 15:11:25 -0700
From:      Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Boris Samorodov <bsam@passap.ru>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r422154 - head/misc/fortune_strfile
Message-ID:  <86ed1257-e5b7-8e82-ad37-039690a394a1@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <74591600-69ee-7219-c878-5ae7366b42b8@passap.ru>
References:  <201609141925.u8EJPJb8077087@repo.freebsd.org> <2be2dfc7-2be7-aaf3-7510-58279dea9e37@marino.st> <e2accd31-64bf-014a-d182-ab21c07ebf9b@FreeBSD.org> <74591600-69ee-7219-c878-5ae7366b42b8@passap.ru>

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From: Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>
To: Boris Samorodov <bsam@passap.ru>, ports-committers@freebsd.org,
 svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Message-ID: <86ed1257-e5b7-8e82-ad37-039690a394a1@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: svn commit: r422154 - head/misc/fortune_strfile
References: <201609141925.u8EJPJb8077087@repo.freebsd.org>
 <2be2dfc7-2be7-aaf3-7510-58279dea9e37@marino.st>
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On 9/14/16 1:32 PM, Boris Samorodov wrote:
> 14.09.2016 22:44, Bryan Drewery =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=82:
>=20
>> Ports need maintainers.=20
>=20
> Agreed. But _need_ is not _must have_.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/need
"a situation in which someone or something must do or have something"

>=20
>> It is standard practice to deprecate ports without a maintainer
>=20
> Then it is a bad practice.

Having ports without a maintainer is a bad practice. It leaves users
with no one to support them when things go wrong. A new compiler could
easily break this port and no one would be there to support fixing it.

> Unless you say "... to deprecate *broken/unwanted/etc* ports ...". But
> you did not.
>=20


--=20
Regards,
Bryan Drewery


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