From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 21 16:26:19 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 52D20C9B for ; Wed, 21 May 2014 16:26:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qc0-x232.google.com (mail-qc0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c01::232]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 12A78268D for ; Wed, 21 May 2014 16:26:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qc0-f178.google.com with SMTP id l6so3556687qcy.23 for ; Wed, 21 May 2014 09:26:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=DA3eKAeppy9Ppc3FMmOZTi7lExgs9zPDXjMPGO9SlOk=; b=Hn/VvlaND68jhgn24SmLikzmEvgWtfo/r8IDKv1qA/MytgigWWWOqd1sxJgQbIQE0S aAhFAkIafMVRb4ocW1vJH3d2xt2E+fA6JdrvIPKvsxrIJ47sWFBVWQNG1V37dLRTdiZ/ IRzJiE1KwZjAZLY1Mmra7JwzFFv0XLNRxNd8Sv9CBlJvSsSfnA26qgDy/ItmIIiLJzqT NaZbF55jAMZNccVoZpM/M5VvK0RqCJgz0Vf45ha0phFNoF56y6Sav4EZlgVM+JZNOSWG zqPpbTrX4SXetTCRJyB3Yz+Y0xcBU9AuROusuQryRIZrbh0jquwLkR2ZcFHskk1+KIpq 5tQg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.224.112.138 with SMTP id w10mr50334181qap.31.1400689577809; Wed, 21 May 2014 09:26:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.96.132 with HTTP; Wed, 21 May 2014 09:26:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <537ca253.L5UAU8FjzLGouZBI%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> References: <537ca253.L5UAU8FjzLGouZBI%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 18:26:17 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Disappearing programs: Is FreeBSD ports unmaintained? From: Big Lebowski To: Joerg Schilling Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18 Cc: "ports@FreeBSD.org Ports" X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 16:26:19 -0000 Dear Joerg, The only problem is that if such port is unmaintained (its maintainer email address is ports@freebsd.org) there's no one who could do such thing, because commiters are busy working on the entire ports tree, and apparently no one from maintainers was interested in the port to do so. If you are, submit a PR with setting yourself as a maintainer, and then you can take care of the ports updates and adjustment to changing and evolving ports tree. Regards, BL On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Joerg Schilling < Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote: > Hi, > > the programs star and smake seem to have disappeared from the FreeBSD por= ts > collection. > > The supposed reason is: "no longer compiles".... > but it seems that the real reason is that somebody did modify the build > system > in a way that harms portability and this way caused a FreeBSD change > (introducing the compiler "clang" that causes compatibilty problems) to b= e > the > reason for a package that no longer compiles. > > Isn't it obvious to check more recent version of the sources and to check > whether _unmodified_ sources compile before removing software from the > collection? > > J=C3=B6rg > > -- > EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) J=C3=B6rg Schilling D-133= 53 > Berlin > js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) > joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: > http://schily.blogspot.com/ > URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schil= y > _______________________________________________ > 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" >