Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:58:03 +0800 From: Lang Hai <freealson@gmail.com> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> Cc: bf1783@gmail.com, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2nd deprecation campaign Message-ID: <6F24ECDD-78FB-473D-A249-B76A3615D0AF@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=Jh-P9jBxbkmSnjB1PX_nWE27Upw@mail.gmail.com> References: <BANLkTimHB8USHJLG8Jtb4Nwu7O7O3q4u%2BA@mail.gmail.com> <BANLkTi=Jh-P9jBxbkmSnjB1PX_nWE27Upw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Jun 17, 2011, at 1:45 PM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > 2011/6/16 b. f. <bf1783@googlemail.com>: >> bapt wrote: >>> I am in the middle of a new deprecation campaign, to remove ports >>> where no more distfiles are publicly available (no other OS mirrors >>> doesn't count except if they are the upstream of course). >>>=20 >>> Maybe some will be false positive (I will try to not have too much = of them). >>=20 >> Could you please explain how you are checking this? Just looking at >> some of the recent deprecations, graphics/peps, graphics/vcg, and >> graphics/xfig are still available. On earlier ones, >> graphics/libconvolve exists in the jack_convolve section of the = heaven >> sourceforge project: >>=20 >=20 > Those are not deprecated but broken, broken because they don't fetch > and they need someone to take care of it, to send the new master_site > line for example, I don't have time enough to update/fix all the > master_site lines from the whole ports tree, so I I see none of the > said master_site provide the distfiles, it is marked as broken because > that is what it is. >=20 The depreciation is only for those ports that don't have public = available distfiles right? So that I agree that broken ports should be = excluded from this depreciation. >> = http://sourceforge.net/projects/heaven/files/Audio%20Applications/Jack%20R= elated/jack_convolve/ >>=20 >> security/libident is available via one of the main vlc developers at: >>=20 >> http://www.remlab.net/files/libident/ >>=20 >> comms/gsmlib is maintained by Debian: >>=20 >> http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gsmlib.html >=20 > Debian having the package doesn't mean that they are the upstream. >>=20 >> science/bblimage has been renamed to pyvox and is available at: >>=20 >> http://www.med.upenn.edu/bbl/downloads/pyvox/ >>=20 >> That's eight false positives out of eleven deprecations that I >> selected by inspection, and I didn't spend more than two minutes >> checking any of them. >>=20 >=20 > Keep in mind that : > deprecated !=3D broken >=20 > And those ports expecting for somone to look after them for a long > time now it is done, then my process is good :) >=20 So yes, always give people chance to fix ports, not remove them from the = tree. And, do we have a list of all maintainer-wanted ports, because that = would be great if we have. >> I will fix the above. >>=20 >=20 > Thanks for a lot. >=20 >> b. >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Regards, Hai Lang=
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