From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 4 23:19:43 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55FF4249 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 2013 23:19:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from feld@feld.me) Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A706120D for ; Tue, 4 Jun 2013 23:19:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.45]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ED4821549 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 2013 19:19:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from web3.nyi.mail.srv.osa ([10.202.2.213]) by compute5.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 04 Jun 2013 19:19:37 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=feld.me; h= message-id:from:to:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding :content-type:in-reply-to:references:subject:date; s=mesmtp; bh= eaWXfijHt3/6jHO/DA26AQ7yKY4=; b=jRjU5NtYO4T9VSYSxg9K16QFMWWucaXH zgo/R5I1YZ8tKCTX0CdvpL2rS0c03mQX1jFx7NYqSgHlQS3Htrrd/Mv6qQDwDnAA zdMVL8F7SD7/4MkuWXkxNFeUOHfJpt6kfRQzAvu+o3+42v65KOENyOSlBRl/a8eN rXzT01DH4X0= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:from:to:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:content-type:in-reply-to:references :subject:date; s=smtpout; bh=eaWXfijHt3/6jHO/DA26AQ7yKY4=; b=MK0 XAEx07SBXV3rFQpqmCmqB4Yfmcn85/miikDt1ZC1g3I486qDXmBX3sO1EDrIqxzn tCDuCPVIlQBcUNnc08ru+MOkZm/Sj8NmBYxwa2MVyZCyrUfedsH8/PNxfY75HYaI FQqlls0j4E8OfSYFuBTphG3dt8q50KueEzVKyi9M= Received: by web3.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix, from userid 99) id EB56DD00A40; Tue, 4 Jun 2013 19:19:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1370387973.7792.140661239936545.13EA35EC@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: FEWY8Xtt+et5cv2VOxriIm4Fja7MDgE697HWlP1ROILf 1370387973 From: Mark Felder To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-740f167c In-Reply-To: <20130604213412.GB2986@rancor.immure.com> References: <20130604213412.GB2986@rancor.immure.com> Subject: Re: Why was the ventrilo-server port removed? Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:19:33 -0500 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 23:19:43 -0000 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.