From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 10 23:21:33 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB366106566C for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:21:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from miwi.freebsd@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ey0-f182.google.com (mail-ey0-f182.google.com [209.85.215.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BED48FC1C for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:21:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyd10 with SMTP id 10so3771454eyd.13 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:21:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:reply-to:organization:user-agent :mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=gkWlRNwh943dv+L4zAdwgIMlA9Jt+LaA9DzpnX0Ms2A=; b=UYVNabDuJf1aXWAGPpNQ4hzsLVRuYD8nM57g80iD9fvdTMMfaDZNHz4L2K0AeaRnck 0ifHoNi2tQS09y778DkxRFw+blJIGCI/Vg/yS/DbBLxGMz8A1d1V+2zuLpGcOqyM0jUZ uNhJPidm+/OsOXhy/8MKWXC+XS8ZsbnNQwsyQ= Received: by 10.68.21.100 with SMTP id u4mr371129pbe.54.1320965417779; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:50:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from yakim.homeunix.com ([175.142.211.255]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p10sm24875667pbd.15.2011.11.10.14.50.14 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:50:16 -0800 (PST) Sender: Martin Wilke Message-ID: <4EBCC587.10701@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 06:49:43 +0000 From: Martin Wilke Organization: FreeBSD User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111110 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dmitry Marakasov References: <20111109124325.17efc0d1.stas@deglitch.com> <20111109222435.GD92221@azathoth.lan> <20111110110637.GA3514@hades.panopticon> In-Reply-To: <20111110110637.GA3514@hades.panopticon> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Baptiste Daroussin , Stanislav Sedov Subject: Re: Recent ports removal X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: miwi@FreeBSD.org List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:21:33 -0000 On 11/10/2011 11:06, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: > * Baptiste Daroussin (bapt@FreeBSD.org) wrote: > >>> I noticed the following in the commit log: >>> % >>> % Modified files: >>> % . MOVED >>> % devel Makefile >>> % graphics Makefile >>> % Removed files: >>> % devel/soup Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist >>> % devel/soup/files patch-Makefile.in patch-configure >>> % patch-docs::reference::Makefile.in >>> % patch-soup-0.7.11-gcc41 >>> % patch-src_libsoup_soup-message.c >>> % patch-src_libwsdl_wsdl-soap-memory.c >>> % patch-src_libwsdl_wsdl-soap-parse.c >>> % patch-src_libwsdl_wsdl-typecodes.c >>> % graphics/clutter-qt Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist >>> % graphics/librsvg Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist >>> % graphics/librsvg/files patch-Makefile.in patch-configure >>> % patch-librsvg-config.in patch-rsvg-ft.c >>> % patch-test-ft-gtk.c patch-test-ft.c >>> % graphics/p5-clutter Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist >>> % Log: >>> % 2011-11-06 devel/soup: Unmaintain, use devel/libsoup >>> % 2011-11-06 graphics/clutter-qt: upstream distfile and doesn't build, and %doesn't seem to be developed anymore >>> % 2011-11-06 graphics/p5-clutter: upstream distfile disappeard, and doesn't seem to be developed anymore >>> % 2011-11-06 graphics/librsvg: unmaintained and not used anymore >>> >>> I just cannot get the commit message. librsvg -- not used by whom? Personally, >>> I used it in one of my older projects (~ 10 years old) which I don't plan >>> to rework to use rsvg2/gtk2 because it doesn't make sense for it. So how >>> do I use my project now on FreeBSD? >>> >>> It's also a lie that it's not maintained, it's maintained by ports@ mailing >>> list and the community. So please, restore it. >>> >>> The same also probably goes for other ports, but I don't have enough details >>> to comment. >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >> They have been deprecated for a while and noone said anything about those, that >> is the purpose of the DEPRECATED status. The "not used anymore" mean not used in > Why should we go through it again and again? If it's not broken, it's > useable, you may not remove it, period. > >> the portstree (ie no more depended on). > Most of the portstree is leaf ports, now what? > >> If someone really needs it, he can: > What we need is to not have to do extra work and to not have extra noise > on the maillist because someone does unneeded things. I really don't > want to call that vandalism. > You can't only put in u have also to put out. -- +-----------------oOO--(_)--OOo-------------------------+ With best Regards, Martin Wilke (miwi_(at)_FreeBSD.org) Mess with the Best, Die like the Rest