Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:54:03 +0100 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@FreeBSD.org> To: Chris <i.h8.git@BSDforge.com> Cc: Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt@burggraben.net>, Vladimir Druzenko <vvd@freebsd.org>, Daniel Engberg <diizzy@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git: 5a83e5118a3a - main - archivers/grzip: Update 0.3.0 => 0.3.1 Message-ID: <86a4wupl50.fsf@ltc.des.dev> In-Reply-To: <4b44b21bfd08db35af9d750ad13684f3@BSDforge.com> (Chris's message of "Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:24:42 -0800") References: <69a09aed.1bda3.7d294928@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <a0471eb1-f667-4104-a580-0b20c04feeed@FreeBSD.org> <3f28a6ae-5e88-4cfc-849a-b364bd1b1401@freebsd.org> <e928ad64-8839-49a0-9664-994edf8f8ef6@FreeBSD.org> <53b6c656-bc7a-4e84-b987-714e4d23221e@freebsd.org> <aaDP3U6sF4yu6BzO@elch.exwg.net> <4b44b21bfd08db35af9d750ad13684f3@BSDforge.com>
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Chris <i.h8.git@BSDforge.com> writes: > These weren't here when I adopted the port. Nor was there any replies > received from emails sent to the authors (then) address. I don't see > that he's still developing the port (as per github). Only the link > at https://compressionratings.com. Which is only a link to an archive. > So not much different than I was already doing. > The site doesn't have appeared to have been updated since 2012. I'll > send another email to the author in hopes of a reply. So what is the benefit of keeping an orphaned grzip implementation in ports when we've had native support for the format in base since 2013? DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@FreeBSD.orghome | help
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