From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 15 22:03:23 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48121106566C for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:03:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhelfman@experts-exchange.com) Received: from mail.experts-exchange.com (mail.experts-exchange.com [72.29.183.251]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23DD18FC0C for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:03:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.experts-exchange.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.experts-exchange.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B28CD71477D for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:03:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=e-e.com; h= user-agent:in-reply-to:content-disposition:content-type :content-type:mime-version:references:message-id:subject:subject :from:from:date:date:received:received:received; s=ee; t= 1300226602; x=1302041002; bh=UVsEYxHi0xvEFOwOFqijUmOzUZ+BWl8x/oU KOlz+h1o=; b=i9PiqMjzfeRTAHS1I5JKuugYS1u9FQkZR9JjX7wcc9jCSkorSj7 PxpJPYGqCzyVPLP3+LzFGRVJ4QGTq6jKKtZM3IOvJV/OW8rtVbNNZFBWHwelXi6E jIfRSxS0y9JdEpunHsfOdX/Nd8bR9DoitrDFqUB/ojM3wdJYvBTkJtwU= X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at experts-exchange.com Received: from mail.experts-exchange.com ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.experts-exchange.com (mail.experts-exchange.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id XDD9NSibxH2v for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:03:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from experts-exchange.com (unknown [72.29.180.81]) by mail.experts-exchange.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 7BFDE71476B for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:03:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (nullmailer pid 51890 invoked by uid 1001); Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:59:57 -0000 Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:59:57 -0700 From: Jason Helfman To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20110315215957.GB51701@eggman.experts-exchange.com> References: <20110315215801.GD5349@comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110315215801.GD5349@comcast.net> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE X-Living-The-Dream: I love the SLO Life! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Subject: Re: deprecated ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:03:23 -0000 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