Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:23:28 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> 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: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1108300908000.46886@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <4E5CC44C.3070604@FreeBSD.org> References: <201108300823.p7U8NIfD038098@repoman.freebsd.org> <4E5CC44C.3070604@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, Matthias Andree wrote: > 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 Even if there was a drop-in replacement, that seems way too early to let people get it deployed. Some initial searching shows that maildrop is a functional replacement and can be used with sendmail's local_procmail feature, but the rules are different. There could be other functionality which users depend on, like formail, which a replacement might not have. For now, a pkg-message for mail/procmail that suggests alternates, and why, would give users some time to prepare.
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