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Date:      Fri, 25 Apr 2014 10:07:55 +0200
From:      John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st>
To:        Rusmir Dusko <nemysis@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org,  svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r352089 - head/print/detex
Message-ID:  <535A17DB.3070300@marino.st>
In-Reply-To: <201404250715.s3P7FSaK088998@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <201404250715.s3P7FSaK088998@svn.freebsd.org>

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On 4/25/2014 09:15, Rusmir Dusko wrote:
> Author: nemysis
> Date: Fri Apr 25 07:15:28 2014
> New Revision: 352089
> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/352089
> QAT: https://qat.redports.org/buildarchive/r352089/
> 
> Log:
>   - Bump PORTREVISION for LICENSE adding
>   - Remove DEPRECATED, EXPIRATION_DATE
>   - Add license (MIT)
>   - Support STAGEDIR
>   - Add post-extract to fix MAN
>   - Add DOCS and Option
>   - Please don't deprecate so easily next time,
>     this port was not hard to fix.


What's the point of the last line of the commit message?  Deprecation is
not about how hard a port is to fix.  It's obviously that a large number
of ports were identified as by some characteristic and all deprecated
without examining the ports in detail.

You found this port.  You added stage support.  You removed the
deprecation.  That's what is supposed to happen.  Had you done none of
those things, the port would eventually be removed, which is fine -- it
means nobody cared enough about it.

By the way, you didn't address the stated reason it was deprecated: It
has no maintainer and hasn't had one in 12 years.  (still true)

John



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