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From: Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:59:09 -0700
To: Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Time to mark portupgrade deprecated?
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> Why pick portupgrade when a lot of people (including myself) use it? There=
 are=20
> probably 100's of ports more worthy of deprecation. Maybe there should be a=
=20
> policy to deprecate all unmaintained ports if nobody steps up. You can alw=
ays=20
> drag it out of the attic if enough people squak and probably find someone t=
o=20
> maintain it in the process.
>=20

Personally, I don't see any reason at all to deprecate it.
It works, it's maintained (by ruby@ and me personally) and it's
generally useful.  If someone feels that there's lack of maintainership
here he's always welcome to step in and contribute time/resources.

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