Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:59:57 -0700 From: Jason Helfman <jhelfman@e-e.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: deprecated ports Message-ID: <20110315215957.GB51701@eggman.experts-exchange.com> In-Reply-To: <20110315215801.GD5349@comcast.net> References: <20110315215801.GD5349@comcast.net>
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On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 02:58:01PM -0700, Charlie Kester thus spake: >I see there's been another few batch commits deprecating some >unmaintained ports where "upstream is gone and/or distfile is no longer >available." > >Maintainers and prospective maintainers should be sure to look at the >ports listed in these commits. I don't think much effort was made to >check the availability of the distfiles. Instead, it seems that all >that was done was to try the MASTER_SITES, etc. from the port Makefiles, >and if the fetch failed, onto the list they went. > >NOTE: I'm NOT saying the committers' procedure was too lazy or anything >like that. There are a lot of these broken ports in the tree, and >deprecation seems like a reasonable step to take -- especially if the >result is to trigger some action from people who want to see these ports >retained. > >I just rescued one of these, sysutils/lookat, that was deprecated a few >days ago. I followed the WWW link in the pkg-descr, found that the >author's website was still up and that the distfile could still be >downloaded -- but the download url had changed. So all the port needed >was a tweak to the MASTER_SITES. > >Today I see that the fairly popular graphics/gimpshop has also been >deprecated. Here the WWW link from pkg-descr also fails, but a quick >websearch found the new (?) official website for this app: >http://www.gimpshop.com, where the distfile is available for download. >So here's another one that can be easily rescued. > >And I'll bet there are more. > To this point I just found another: sysutils/idled was just deprecated the other day. In following some weblinks, I found that doinkd has replaced it: sysutils/doinkd :) Maybe the DEPRECATION line should be altered. -jgh
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