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Date:      Sun, 29 Oct 2023 08:16:31 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
To:        Max Brazhnikov <makc@freebsd.org>
Cc:        ports-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org, Muhammad Moinur Rahman <bofh@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: git: c3da27075a6d - main - science/py-pymol: Mark DEPRECATED
Message-ID:  <ZT4U380_YwIYL-yf@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <84927256.0ko45tJjV3@mercury>
References:  <202310281440.39SEeH2q001923@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <84927256.0ko45tJjV3@mercury>

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On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 07:06:58PM +0300, Max Brazhnikov wrote:
> Hi Muhammad,
> 
> > commit c3da27075a6d38d1c3659a242245c519a6756165
> > 
> >     science/py-pymol: Mark DEPRECATED
> > 
> >     - Depends on deprecated devel/py-qt5-pyqt
> 
> please, don't mark ports DEPRECATED recursively.

+1

> pyqt5 can be (and will be) packaged without qtwebkit support.
> Ports that depend on pyqt5 mostly don't care about qtwebkit,
> so there is no point in deprecation stamp.

It's not just useless, it creates needless repochurn: after pyqt5
will be divorced from webkit, someone(tm) has to revisit all these
ports and revert undue deprecation.

./danfe



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