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Date:      Wed, 10 Sep 2014 08:00:58 +0200
From:      John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st>
To:        Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>, John Marino <marino@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r367789 - in head: . dns dns/posadis games games/linux-savage net net/etherboot
Message-ID:  <540FE91A.2070905@marino.st>
In-Reply-To: <34104EFD-4F9E-4383-9D3B-6150EE77DE65@adamw.org>
References:  <201409092248.s89MmeZq039294@svn.freebsd.org> <34104EFD-4F9E-4383-9D3B-6150EE77DE65@adamw.org>

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On 9/10/2014 06:14, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> On 9 Sep, 2014, at 18:48, John Marino <marino@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
>> Author: marino
>> Date: Tue Sep  9 22:48:40 2014
>> New Revision: 367789
>> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/367789
>> QAT: https://qat.redports.org/buildarchive/r367789/
>>
>> Log:
>>  Remove three unrelated unstaged ports
>>
>> Deleted:
>>  head/dns/posadis/
> 
> I remember trying to work on this one a bit ago. IIRC there’s a library in devel, poslib I think?, that existed only for posadis, but was preventing posadis from building. I think it needed syslimits.h anywhere in the public headers, and had some other weird failure.
> 
> If those problems haven’t been fixed, is it worth deprecating poslib too?
> 

posadis has essentially been abandoned for 10 years.  The last activity
on the SF source was about 6 weeks after the last release.  There are
other dns implementations that are still maintained, so yes, I think
poslib should be deprecated.  I didn't know it existed.

John







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