From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 28 03:31:19 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60C281065672 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 03:31:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0CDD8FC15 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 03:31:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 21245 invoked by uid 399); 28 Sep 2010 03:31:18 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.142?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 28 Sep 2010 03:31:18 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4CA16188.20306@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 20:31:20 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexey Dokuchaev References: <201009272151.o8RLpA8I002279@repoman.freebsd.org> <20100928024255.GA61304@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20100928024255.GA61304@FreeBSD.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.2a1pre OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Emanuel Haupt , ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/sysutils/screenie Makefile pkg-descr X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: **OBSOLETE** CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 03:31:19 -0000 On 9/27/2010 7:42 PM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 09:51:10PM +0000, Emanuel Haupt wrote: >> ehaupt 2010-09-27 21:51:10 UTC >> >> FreeBSD ports repository >> >> Modified files: >> sysutils/screenie Makefile pkg-descr >> Log: >> - Drop maintainership >> - Mark DEPRECATED, development has been ceased and is no longer maintained >> - Set EXPIRATION_DATE to one month from now > > But the port does not look BROKEN, why deprecating it? I mean, it > can still be useful for some people despite that development ceased. If that's the case someone will notice that it's deprecated, and step forward to maintain it. In an situation like this I might give it more than one month, since not everyone uses tools like portmaster that tell you when something is DEPRECATED, but generally the maintainer is in a pretty good position to know when one of their ports has passed the point of its useful life ... Doug -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/