From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 15 22:16:45 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 9A3BC106566C for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:16:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from corky1951@comcast.net) Received: from qmta02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 458F78FC0C for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:16:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta18.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.90]) by qmta02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id KaFY1g0041wpRvQ52aGlmL; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:16:45 +0000 Received: from comcast.net ([98.203.142.76]) by omta18.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id KaGf1g00T1f6R9u3eaGhU8; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:16:43 +0000 Received: by comcast.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:16:38 -0700 Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:16:38 -0700 From: Charlie Kester To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20110315221638.GE5349@comcast.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <20110315215801.GD5349@comcast.net> <20110315215957.GB51701@eggman.experts-exchange.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110315215957.GB51701@eggman.experts-exchange.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Mailer: Mutt 1.4.2.3i X-Composer: Vim 7.3 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 22:16:45 -0000 On Tue 15 Mar 2011 at 14:59:57 PDT Jason Helfman wrote: >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. > Two more found with a simple web query: finance/xinvest and finance/xquote are now on sourceforge. http://xinvest.sourceforge.net/ BTW, I don't use either of these, or gimpshop, so I'm not going to fix the ports myself. Instead, I'll leave that to anyone who's interested.