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Date:      Fri, 20 Oct 2017 22:22:01 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Rodrigo Osorio <rodrigo@FreeBSD.org>
To:        ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r452565 - head/dns/dualserver
Message-ID:  <201710202222.v9KMM1ST089390@repo.freebsd.org>

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Author: rodrigo
Date: Fri Oct 20 22:22:01 2017
New Revision: 452565
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/452565

Log:
  Deprecate this port with an expiration date the 01/01/2018
  
  Dualserver is a badly done piece of software hard to patch and maintain,
  offering less features than its competitors (eg. dnsmasq), and suffering
  from design flaws. Since upgrading to the latest version is a useless task
  I thik we should consider its deprecation.
  
  Please consider to move to dns/dnsmasq.

Modified:
  head/dns/dualserver/Makefile

Modified: head/dns/dualserver/Makefile
==============================================================================
--- head/dns/dualserver/Makefile	Fri Oct 20 21:34:54 2017	(r452564)
+++ head/dns/dualserver/Makefile	Fri Oct 20 22:22:01 2017	(r452565)
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ COMMENT=	Combined DHCP/DNS server for small LANs
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv2
 
+DEPRECATED=	Please migrate to dns/dnsmasq. Over the years dualserver becomes unmaintenaible.
+EXPIRATION_DATE=	2018-01-01
+
 USES=		dos2unix
 USE_RC_SUBR=	dualserver
 PLIST_FILES=	sbin/dualserver etc/dualserver.conf.sample



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