Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:19:33 -0500 From: Mark Felder <feld@feld.me> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why was the ventrilo-server port removed? Message-ID: <1370387973.7792.140661239936545.13EA35EC@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <20130604213412.GB2986@rancor.immure.com> References: <20130604213412.GB2986@rancor.immure.com>
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On Tue, Jun 4, 2013, at 16:34, Bob Willcox wrote: > I just noticed that the port for audio/ventrilo-server has been removed. > The > 'depricated because' reason says "No more public distfiles", yet as far > as I > can tell the distfile for the freebsd version is still available from > www.ventrilo.com. It requires a manual download as you have to accept the > license agreement, but I don't think that has changed from when I first > downloaded it. > > So, anyone know if there some other reason for its removal? > I don't know what the policy is because there are other ports that have restricted distfiles. Maybe it was just unmaintained? You could submit a patch to make it interactive and display a message about manually fetching the distfile.
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