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Date:      Mon, 13 May 2019 05:48:54 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
To:        Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>
Cc:        Max Brazhnikov <makc@freebsd.org>, Antoine Brodin <antoine@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r501300 - in head: math math/curv misc misc/openvdb
Message-ID:  <20190513054853.GA49501@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAP7rwchxDGgoS-vGZs9MVEdpQtRpGfP3PhvtTg_DqhGCxsmOiQ@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <201905112022.x4BKM9n6069421@repo.freebsd.org> <1562227.MsCH1bHPGx@mercury.ph.man.ac.uk> <CAP7rwchxDGgoS-vGZs9MVEdpQtRpGfP3PhvtTg_DqhGCxsmOiQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 02:27:09PM -0600, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 12:37 PM Max Brazhnikov <makc@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, 11 May 2019 20:22:09 +0000 (UTC) Antoine Brodin wrote:
> > > Author: antoine
> > > Date: Sat May 11 20:22:09 2019
> > > New Revision: 501300
> > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/501300
> > >
> > > Log:
> > >   Remove untested ports
> >
> > You could have marked them BROKEN instead.
> 
> BROKEN is for ports that used to work and now there's a problem. It
> lets end-users keep what they have instead of accidentally building
> something known not to work anymore.
> 
> When a port is broken from the start, there's no point in it being in
> the tree. It can be re-added if/when it works.

The thing is that readding them properly takes extra work and sometimes
people might forget to do a repocopy.  It would be more appropriate to
disconnect them from the build and give original committer couple of
days to react, not silently removing them without even providing a log
which shows the failure.  I totally understand Yuri's frustration here.

./danfe



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