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From: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon)
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Subject: Re: procedure for removing a port from the tree?
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It's in there towards the end:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/dads-deprecated.html

You can just file a PR adding the DEPRECATED and EXPIRATION_DATE lines.

The only reason we do this step is to provide warning for any existing
users.

mcl