Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:14:08 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Pierre Guinoiseau <pierre@guinoiseau.eu>, freebsd-perl@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, "Philip M. Gollucci" <pgollucci@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/lang Makefile ports/Mk bsd.perl.mk ports/lang/perl5.8 Makefile Makefile.man distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/lang/perl5.8/files patch-Configure patch-INST_PREFIX.t patch-MM_Any.pm patch-bug64562 ... Message-ID: <20120312001408.GA28798@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <4F5D13B8.7010505@FreeBSD.org> References: <201203081837.q28IbsRd001209@repoman.freebsd.org> <20120309134313.GO1450@tritus.poildetroll.net> <4F5D13B8.7010505@FreeBSD.org>
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--azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2012-Mar-11 14:06:00 -0700, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >On 03/09/2012 05:43, Pierre Guinoiseau wrote: >> there was no DEPRECATED nor EXPIRATION_DATE set prior to lang/perl5.8 and >> lang/perl5.10 removal, and there was no warning whatsoever on freebsd-po= rts@ nor >> freebsd-ports-announce@ lists. Perl is a rather critical piece of softwa= re, I agree with these sentiments. >I'm sort of surprised that more people have not spoken up about this. Well, I found out about it when my nightly "make index" produced a shower of errors. I found the relevant commit, worked out how to clean up and moved on. I didn't speak up because I didn't think it would help by then. portmaster made this mostly painless (though I'm not sure if going from 5.10 to 5.14 has broken any of my scripts). --=20 Peter Jeremy --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk9dP9AACgkQ/opHv/APuIfISgCeIUDt/yPzzj5yteWQmVzYqRYx M1UAoJfyxsSC14Wi4HusBjSrUqUcUCDs =U6lb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU--
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