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Date:      Sun, 15 Sep 2002 13:17:16 -0400
From:      AlanE <alane@geeksrus.net>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: Deleting old ports (Re: cvs commit: ports/audio Makefile ports/sysutils Makefile ports/sysutils/koncd Makefile distinfo pkg-comment pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/sysutils/koncd/files patch-Makefile.in patch-koncd-Makefile.in patch-koncd-mastercd_gui.h ports/audio/knapster ...)
Message-ID:  <20020915171716.GA69522@wwweasel.geeksrus.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020915171534.GA2960@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <200209142101.g8EL1gXp070381@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020914215905.GA76182@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020915160331.GA2115@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <20020915171534.GA2960@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 10:15:35AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 12:03:31PM -0400, AlanE at FreeBSD.org wrote:
>
>> >>   2. knapster is dead, as napster is dead.
>> >
>> >Last time I tried it, there were other unofficial napster servers
>> >available, so the clients were still useful.  Is this no longer the
>> >case?
>> >
>> >Kris
>> 
>> Maintainer is no longer maintaining it, agreed to deletion.
>
>I appreciate that you want to clean up old KDE2 ports, but I think
>you're being rather too aggressive about it.  The usual procedure that
>is followed here is to mark the port FORBIDDEN for a few months and
>see if anyone comes forward with an update.  If no-one does after that
>time period has elapsed, then we know it's really unsupported by the
>ports community and can delete it.
>
>Kris

Will told me he wanted the whole thing cleaned up before the ports 
freeze, so that's what I'm trying to do.

-- 
Alan Eldridge
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