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Date:      Wed, 26 Aug 2015 12:30:23 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        marino@freebsd.org
Cc:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>, Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r395079 - in head/graphics: . mitsuba mitsuba/files
Message-ID:  <20150826123023.GA114@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <55DDAB81.2030302@marino.st>
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On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 02:05:21PM +0200, John Marino wrote:
> Unfortunately they should expect full out breakage immediately and count
> every day that works beyond EOL as a bonus.
> 
> IMO, any expectation of "slow-death bitrot" after EOL is unrealistic and
> maybe we would do people a better service of dispelling this notion
> rather than perpetuating it.  FWIW I don't support removing EOL support
> actively (as the only change) but do think it should be removed when
> coupled with other maintenance and not just left because it still works
> in theory.

Well, fair enough.  Time to get back to coding. :)

./danfe



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