Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2024 09:40:40 +0200 From: Michael Gmelin <grembo@freebsd.org> To: Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> Cc: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, Daniel Engberg <diizzy@freebsd.org>, Lewis Cook <lcook@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git: 4a384fbfb20b - main - accessibility/redshift: Deprecate and set expiration date to 2024-06-30 Message-ID: <20240607094040.167b2517.grembo@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAK7dMtA4xSe6-bkscOxxM-SsrmT6NRZjHQYXs-ej5RqZcMDS3g@mail.gmail.com> References: <202406061907.456J7rr8077152@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <ZmKGFLxY99i1FnSS@FreeBSD.org> <CAK7dMtA4xSe6-bkscOxxM-SsrmT6NRZjHQYXs-ej5RqZcMDS3g@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 6 Jun 2024 21:47:17 -0700 Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 9:01=E2=80=AFPM Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.or= g> > wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 07:07:53PM +0000, Daniel Engberg wrote: =20 > > > commit 4a384fbfb20b4d684f86aa3af1f898abf809ed49 > > > > > > accessibility/redshift: Deprecate and set expiration date to > > > 2024-06-30 > > > > > > No upstream activity for the past 4 years, a lot of bug reports > > > upstream =20 > > > > Could you please stop arbitrarily deprecating working software? > > Lots of us use redshift as their daily driver because of its > > flexibility and don't really care what happens upstream or whether > > it supports something as useless as Wayland. =20 >=20 > I do not use this software but that is beside the point and I agree in > principle that there seems to be an overeagerness in deprecating ports > recently. If the software is building, and is not retarding progress > elsewhere, there should be no impetus to go hunting for ports even if > they seem less useful than alternatives. If there is some other > technical concern driving this like disk space or build time please > communicate that to ports-developers so it can be debated against > other options. >=20 > > > Redirect users to accessibility/sct =20 > > > > Simplistic program which doesn't even parse command line to give one > > usage information, and "last commit 5 years ago" doesn't bother you > > in this case for some reason. Surely there won't be lots of bug > > reports because there ain't much no features. > > > > Lewis, could you chime in and restore the previous status quo? > > > > ./danfe =20 Just as a datapoint, I'm also using redshift and it works just fine for me. Cheers --=20 Michael Gmelin
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