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Date:      Mon, 2 Mar 2009 15:32:43 -0801
From:      "David E. Thiel" <lx@redundancy.redundancy.org>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dead projects in ports tree
Message-ID:  <20090302233306.GE29616@redundancy.redundancy.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090302233046.GB7269@lonesome.com>
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On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 05:30:46PM -0600, Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 02:35:38PM -0801, David E. Thiel wrote:
> > I would like to hear what people feel the best method for getting rid
> > of unused and irrelevant ports, though -- bump portrevision and mark
> > BROKEN for a few months?
> 
> How about marking them DEPRECATED and with an EXPIRATION_DATE, as is
> already commonly done?

Ah, fair enough. Been a while since I've run into those, so they slipped
my mind.



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