Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 16:14:26 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r435349 - in head: astro/gmapcatcher audio/last-cmus audio/logitechmediaserver-superdatetime audio/mehdiaplayer audio/pidgin-musictracker audio/xpi-musicpm biology/treeviewx chinese/fci... Message-ID: <20170303161426.GA55305@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <201703031600.v23G0Koq052052@repo.freebsd.org> References: <201703031600.v23G0Koq052052@repo.freebsd.org>
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On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 04:00:20PM +0000, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > New Revision: 435349 > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/435349 > > Log: > Mark the remaining ports depending on Google Code as DEPRECATED, with an > EXPIRATION_DATE at the end of April 2017. You could've at least give some courtesy to these not-build-broken ports by allowing longer expiration period. :-( > In the past six months, about a third of the ports marked BROKEN because > they were hosted on Google Code have been fixed. The remaining must not > be of use to anyone. Or they might not have noticed that Google Code had gone, or might have had distfile cached locally, who knows? The only sound reason for deprecation if port does not build (install, package, has known security issues). Just because Google guys like to kill their projects doesn't mean our users have to suffer. ./danfe
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