Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:24:38 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh <sunpoet@freebsd.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Matthias Andree <mandree@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/mail/procmail Makefile Message-ID: <201108301524.p7UFOc6Q008169@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:06:52 %2B0200." <4E5CC44C.3070604@FreeBSD.org>
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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. Sorry No, it would be most irresponsible to consider a timeout of 2 months ! Procmail has been compiling regularly, working fine & vitaly necessary here for a decade. If one were considering to toss out such a vital tool, one should give a warning of a release or 2. (*) > Now that you're maintaining it I seek you to please let this > unmaintained unclean code from our FreeBSD ports world and deprecate it. Sunpoet please ignore Matthias ! Take your time. > 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, It's not hard to use, Read the manual & learn. Examples http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/dots/.procmailrc http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/dots/.procmailrc.lists more in: http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/dots/ > and should finally disappear. No > Please add > > DEPRECATED= use mail/maildrop instead No, > EXPIRATION_DATE= 2011-10-31 (*) Irresponsible lack of warning ! Lots of users of releases dont even read ports@ ( Reminds me of the Hitch Hikers Guide episode where the vogons come to destroy the earth, & claim due warning was lodged in Alpha Centauri ;-) Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below, not above; Indent with "> "; Cumulative like a play script. Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable.
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