Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:19:29 +0000 From: Baptiste Daroussin <baptiste.daroussin@gmail.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net> Subject: Re: deprecated ports Message-ID: <AANLkTi=XNDEZiqxnmkP2yXAtG6cQObfGfu5Nf4vQhU-S@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110315215801.GD5349@comcast.net> References: <20110315215801.GD5349@comcast.net>
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2011/3/15 Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net> > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > 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" > I am responsible for the deprecation and I have done more than just look if the distfiles fetch (I fixed lot of them) I may have missed some for sure, when when I deprecate sysutils/lookat I wasn't able to join the main website nor to fetch a distfile. About gimpshop it may be wrong, but one there website I only found windows and mac binaries, nothing. I am human and I can make mistakes. thanks pointing the mistakes. I really will be happy to remove the deprecation and expiration if people wanted to maintain or point me to the right WWW and MASTER_SITES for the given ports. regards, Bapt
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