Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:16:38 -0700 From: Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: deprecated ports Message-ID: <20110315221638.GE5349@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20110315215957.GB51701@eggman.experts-exchange.com> References: <20110315215801.GD5349@comcast.net> <20110315215957.GB51701@eggman.experts-exchange.com>
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On Tue 15 Mar 2011 at 14:59:57 PDT Jason Helfman wrote: >On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 02:58:01PM -0700, Charlie Kester thus spake: >>I see there's been another few batch commits deprecating some >>unmaintained ports where "upstream is gone and/or distfile is no longer >>available." >> >>Maintainers and prospective maintainers should be sure to look at the >>ports listed in these commits. I don't think much effort was made to >>check the availability of the distfiles. Instead, it seems that all >>that was done was to try the MASTER_SITES, etc. from the port Makefiles, >>and if the fetch failed, onto the list they went. >> >>NOTE: I'm NOT saying the committers' procedure was too lazy or anything >>like that. There are a lot of these broken ports in the tree, and >>deprecation seems like a reasonable step to take -- especially if the >>result is to trigger some action from people who want to see these ports >>retained. >> >>I just rescued one of these, sysutils/lookat, that was deprecated a few >>days ago. I followed the WWW link in the pkg-descr, found that the >>author's website was still up and that the distfile could still be >>downloaded -- but the download url had changed. So all the port needed >>was a tweak to the MASTER_SITES. >> >>Today I see that the fairly popular graphics/gimpshop has also been >>deprecated. Here the WWW link from pkg-descr also fails, but a quick >>websearch found the new (?) official website for this app: >>http://www.gimpshop.com, where the distfile is available for download. >>So here's another one that can be easily rescued. >> >>And I'll bet there are more. >> >To this point I just found another: >sysutils/idled was just deprecated the other day. > >In following some weblinks, I found that doinkd has replaced it: >sysutils/doinkd > >:) > >Maybe the DEPRECATION line should be altered. > Two more found with a simple web query: finance/xinvest and finance/xquote are now on sourceforge. http://xinvest.sourceforge.net/ BTW, I don't use either of these, or gimpshop, so I'm not going to fix the ports myself. Instead, I'll leave that to anyone who's interested.
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