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Date:      Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:12:33 +0400
From:      Ruslan Mahmatkhanov <cvs-src@yandex.ru>
To:        Matthias Andree <mandree@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh <sunpoet@FreeBSD.org>, ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/mail/procmail Makefile
Message-ID:  <4E5CC5A1.6080602@yandex.ru>
In-Reply-To: <4E5CC44C.3070604@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201108300823.p7U8NIfD038098@repoman.freebsd.org> <4E5CC44C.3070604@FreeBSD.org>

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Matthias Andree wrote on 30.08.2011 15:06:
> Am 30.08.2011 10:23, schrieb Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh:
>> sunpoet     2011-08-30 08:23:18 UTC
>>
>>    FreeBSD ports repository
>>
>>    Modified files:
>>      mail/procmail        Makefile
>>    Log:
>>    - Take maintainership
>>
>>    Revision  Changes    Path
>>    1.60      +1 -1      ports/mail/procmail/Makefile
>
> I was just about to grab the port, deprecate and set two months
> expiration date.
>
> Now that you're maintaining it I seek you to please let this
> unmaintained unclean code from our FreeBSD ports world and deprecate it.
>
> The code is unmaintainable, hasn't seen maintenance in a decade,
> is hard to use properly because of its fall-through "error handling"
> (actually nonhandling) behaviour, and should finally disappear.
>
> Please add
>
> DEPRECATED=		use mail/maildrop instead
> EXPIRATION_DATE=	2011-10-31

or mail/getmail

>
>
> maildrop (courier's filtering agent) has been around for nearly as long
> and works well.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Best,
> Matthias


-- 
Regards,
Ruslan

Tinderboxing kills... the drives.



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