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Date:      Wed, 17 Nov 2021 10:16:20 +0000
From:      Rene Ladan <rene@freebsd.org>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, portmgr@freebsd.org, python@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Bringing back lang/python27 with few modules?
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On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 12:37:07AM -0800, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> P.S. AFAIK our documented criteria for removing a port is when one of the
> following is true:
>  o Port lacks maintaintership;
>  o Port has issues building on supported releases;
>  o Port clearly has no users/use;
>  o Port has some serious security issues.
> 
> The lang/python27 did not belong to either of those bins, IMHO.

"Unmaintained upstream" is also a criterion, and Python 2.7 fits there.

Old GCC ports are slowly being phased out too ;)

Regards,
René



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