From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 16 14:19:38 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03DA9106566C for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:19:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baptiste.daroussin@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f182.google.com (mail-iw0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCF9E8FC08 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:19:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn33 with SMTP id 33so1997729iwn.13 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 07:19:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=+wwUYgEext0o3mDCylysIOnGFfj4GCpQjWgnRaABYtU=; b=n9jRZPTM45CwDPsu5YhrNYfTOSv2ieKxHWk/tUu64Dh8cQPknxxGruQcaOTGQ6CVvX J6Fik20AB2JteMgYeaHDC8upg3Ovif8gZdKv/z37P90D4lx08K4UaCBtszKKEJOzgnI6 ZLwYCIvTGxUBsQeWHLsy5nxAtS88nd/gtm1g4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:from:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id :subject:to:content-type; b=KXCo0zVm86Vo80T+enzYbVDYe2Sddv8M2PyKq5FncezMl9nVaAKNSvolzu8nSYV+8m yeYsoApwKC58YtoDlfPjN56mUZt4FPBbB0uqfcHNCobM2Y4iEDx1GZ4v29DhOBDJlBAJ SrR6Ide/3oq8ENSg79rIunknln6vqOHDWy09Q= Received: by 10.43.69.136 with SMTP id yc8mr63806icb.159.1300285177096; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 07:19:37 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: baptiste.daroussin@gmail.com Received: by 10.231.188.221 with HTTP; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 07:19:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Baptiste Daroussin Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:19:17 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: nf1R4dpnAjrymlnCBzlc6MDj2EY Message-ID: To: freebsd ports Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Deprecation campaign X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:19:38 -0000 Hi, As some of you may have noticed I have started a deprecation campaign which should ends at the end of the week. The main goal is to remove stale ports. I have been looking category by category (except for languages category by french) searching for unmaintain ports where I can't find the upstream and where the distfiles can't be fetch from somewhere else than FreeBSD's mirrors Because I know I can make mistakes, the expiration date is set to 2011-05-01 to let users and maintainers the time to save the ports they want to see kept in the ports tree. I use ports-mgmt/distilator to select the candidates for deprecation and then I do a manual checking trying to find new homes, new links and so one. Please do not hesitate to: - double check, - take maintainership on one of those ports, - propose better messages for deprecation message (for example offering a maintained alternative to users), - propose other ports for deletion If you are a maintainer that also would be great if you check your own ports to see if some does need to be deprecated. We have tons of unmaintained (by upstream) libraries which should one day or another be removed from the ports tree, gnome-libs for example. regards, Bapt PS for xmms users : don't be affraid I won't try to remove it :) (not this time :D)