From owner-svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Wed Jan 27 09:54:17 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-ports-head@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ABACA6FAB3; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 09:54:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from koobs.freebsd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pa0-x22d.google.com (mail-pa0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c03::22d]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DF03A1E80; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 09:54:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from koobs.freebsd@gmail.com) Received: by mail-pa0-x22d.google.com with SMTP id uo6so2361506pac.1; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 01:54:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:reply-to:subject:references:to:cc:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=2zzG0PeANDDXulsDe+llLniGc4HkX15E3pgPG1bA+SI=; b=UdfcMJ0SwfEARKKvIHUiJsyeek3U6PTUi1bpfmpym0INbar66H+7kklgY7mxrjPZv7 yRHHAsck3jkySOrzuDezo5Umgs4SCx/66x3uizX+pwI+QxzRAEz278JUOrcxLREvMISJ LZHEl980YRPYYo6nQyGBqSPi+WSWBV3JUgq6u+v6kSN4OpbrObUxr1topimxFzaHnZQf Yuye4i1D7eNxi3sss+Sb0NcYkHxIh3R3LI27cOrH+MbzfAOtYGdxSHZomOkwWszgvxV6 kzDKP3D6QlNhMmZSpOWSFR+OxwYdOYQMFpQNflsaoIc1cDmXri9W0ciqN359ci4TBYH2 r05Q== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:sender:reply-to:subject:references:to:cc:from :message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=2zzG0PeANDDXulsDe+llLniGc4HkX15E3pgPG1bA+SI=; b=P8y48N/56hgxD/NFkhmdtLIGYAF3PNKfmEv9+EozX3gASUPj1oL4TpeTMEggwX9bf2 t+gfXiG/DYWKBAB6K8zYWR/P0nJS2zXReAo8QPFrAfWQ+dRWrj7PpkVW5fJbf5sSISoI ZvRFjsIq75lZOeRPJZu1uq6UDVeiKlht62FfY9huO/9uKJGNCKvlz8pWQbs8Ig/ezDcd Cm9XkIvaiBSWtzTgkwPwtQM2skUA3XOUWYtjiFgCEJg93WZe4qg862uCG4NhE0luAJdz 8N6GE8H+x5i3FXOUcmZmZTyv9rBO5Wi3hU2Xhl8BpbYmzhbKiBqN8/4NtaXb6/q0i9lH KyNQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AG10YOQTGlrCzFJHniLrXOSMucfKGCZQaO0IKq7B+VC/gDZA8vD7PGYQ+0O7vmpz3/1/tQ== X-Received: by 10.67.7.200 with SMTP id de8mr41310531pad.28.1453888456160; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 01:54:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?IPv6:2001:44b8:31ae:7b01:6821:be33:19f8:f73a? (2001-44b8-31ae-7b01-6821-be33-19f8-f73a.static.ipv6.internode.on.net. [2001:44b8:31ae:7b01:6821:be33:19f8:f73a]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id p70sm7626218pfi.96.2016.01.27.01.54.13 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 27 Jan 2016 01:54:15 -0800 (PST) Sender: Kubilay Kocak Reply-To: koobs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r407270 - head/ports-mgmt/portmaster References: <201601261123.u0QBNcvL091258@repo.freebsd.org> <56A86CAD.7030507@marino.st> <56A8747E.5080703@FreeBSD.org> <20160127081700.GA20812@FreeBSD.org> <56A87FCE.6080305@FreeBSD.org> <20160127084230.GA28230@FreeBSD.org> <56A88489.5020507@FreeBSD.org> <20160127093601.GA54242@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexey Dokuchaev Cc: Martin Wilke , ports-committers@freebsd.org, "svn-ports-all@FreeBSD.org" , "svn-ports-head@FreeBSD.org" From: Kubilay Kocak Message-ID: <56A893BF.5090403@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 20:54:07 +1100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/44.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160127093601.GA54242@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the ports tree for head List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 09:54:17 -0000 On 27/01/2016 8:36 PM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > I don't like it. I often want to deprecate a port but stay as long as it > works (while alternatives are better, there might be special cases when a One GREAT example of something similar is python ports, that have End-Of-Life dates set when they are initially branched. I'd LOVE to set 'EOL' notices and dates, without DEPRECATED as soon as the port was created. I've noticed a nasty habit of not deprecating things long enough before we remove them. "Oh hey, lets just set it now and kill it in a month". In the interest of users, we can do better.