Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:15:11 +0000 From: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: deprecated ports Message-ID: <AANLkTi=ydf%2BWTE%2B8swRVD7sbYsmJiQj7vX=cHV7FFrSY@mail.gmail.com>
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> That said, I think that un-deprecating these ports just because someone > can find a distfile somewhere is the wrong approach. bapt has been very > careful to only deprecate ports that are on the absolute bottom of the > pile. They are unmaintained, and unfetchable. That's not completely accurate. Some ports were deprecated because their distfiles had been moved, sometimes to another directory on the same server, but this went unnoticed because the distfiles were mirrored locally. I see a few others, some of them standard packages, that were caught in the net for various reasons -- one because someone had compressed the local copies of the distfiles, and then marked the Makefile so that only the compressed versions that were not present upstream would be fetched; another, still fetchable and with a reachable homepage, was deprecated presumably because it had a few bad mirrors. I'll fix these. There is certainly a lot that could and should be cleaned up, and it is difficult for one person to do this without making a few mistakes -- I'm glad that Bapt was willing to make the attempt. But it's not clear to me why, for example, some usable fonts were deprecated -- fonts often don't have homepages. b.
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