Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:59:09 -0700 From: Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org> To: Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org> Cc: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, "ruby@freebsd.org" <ruby@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Time to mark portupgrade deprecated? Message-ID: <D4EA1198-978F-41BF-BD54-556C8DD96F2D@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <201107251115.00049.beech@freebsd.org> References: <CAF6rxg=TfxbKJwbcm6_c8P7m6%2B-pzvB9SpwKB99%2BLDe4OM%2BeLA@mail.gmail.com> <4E2CD52C.8060701@FreeBSD.org> <201107251115.00049.beech@freebsd.org>
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> Why pick portupgrade when a lot of people (including myself) use it? There= are=20 > probably 100's of ports more worthy of deprecation. Maybe there should be a= =20 > policy to deprecate all unmaintained ports if nobody steps up. You can alw= ays=20 > drag it out of the attic if enough people squak and probably find someone t= o=20 > maintain it in the process. >=20 Personally, I don't see any reason at all to deprecate it. It works, it's maintained (by ruby@ and me personally) and it's generally useful. If someone feels that there's lack of maintainership here he's always welcome to step in and contribute time/resources. -- ST4096-RIPE=
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