Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:47:23 -0400 From: Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org> To: "Mikhail T." <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>, Chip Camden <sterling@camdensoftware.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: saving a few ports from death Message-ID: <20110427204723.GA74591@atarininja.org> In-Reply-To: <4DB876AE.9050906@aldan.algebra.com> References: <4DB6165F.1010806@FreeBSD.org> <20110426024122.GA38579@comcast.net> <A9C17565-97D8-43F1-9CF7-8CFC79EFEA7B@FreeBSD.org> <20110426163424.GB38579@comcast.net> <20110426141209.0d07bccf@seibercom.net> <20110426184315.GA2320@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <19895.13977.553973.609431@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <4DB83D6E.9000800@aldan.algebra.com> <BANLkTik_65bxMgiQMyy1aojDuDjb6BX%2BgQ@mail.gmail.com> <4DB876AE.9050906@aldan.algebra.com>
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On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 04:03:58PM -0400, Mikhail T. wrote: > On 27.04.2011 14:16, Eitan Adler wrote: > > Then bapt@ marked the ports*deprecated* which does not mean deleted. It was a warning that people who were interested should step up and take up the work. If after N amount of time no one does so they will be individually deleted. > The ports I listed -- db2 and apache13* family -- are/were not broken. What > "work" are you talking about? > > Yet, mandree deleted db2 on April 12th and dougb is anxious to delete > apache13 as well instead of simply disowning it... apache13 is EOL upstream. We should not have ports for EOL software. I don't care if it works perfectly fine and someone wants to hand-roll patches back to it. If upstream says it's dead, who are we to keep it alive? -- WXS
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