From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 10 12:33:50 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7394C106566C; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:33:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from tower.berklix.org (tower.berklix.org [83.236.223.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDE4F8FC12; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:33:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mart.js.berklix.net (pD9FBFED2.dip.t-dialin.net [217.251.254.210]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id q3ACXktx048117; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:33:47 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by mart.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id q3ACZIcP057549; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:35:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q3ACYniS011864; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:34:55 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <201204101234.q3ACYniS011864@fire.js.berklix.net> To: Chris Rees From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:09:20 -0000." Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:34:49 +0200 Sender: jhs@berklix.com Cc: Mark Linimon , Scot Hetzel , Boris Samorodov , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail/imaptools: port removal at Monday April 9th X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:33:50 -0000 Hi Chris, > I understand your viewpoint, but given the horrible experiences > certain people had on this kind of thing (you were around then, too), > I think that the 'make a fork and port that instead' is perfectly > reasonable. At least then the software has a maintainer. > > Chris OK, if people will repack rather than loosing; though creating replacement ports wrappers with new names will be hastle not only for freebsd.org, but also for FreeBSD users who may have their own overlay trees of eg ports/*/Makefile.local with SUBDIR+= a port. (hastle of variant SUBDIR += needing to be maintained for different uname -r bases for various local hosts). When a generic author causes trouble, trying to unpublish published sources, I suggest FreeBSD insures itself against more trouble by adding a list of people prepared to witness they saw the published sources with attached licence, at which URL, on what date. Witnesses need not be users of a port, nor programmers (so a wider pool). If some witnesses are non users of a port, it may be seen as more independent. Maintainer of mail/imaptools (Boris) is welcome to add me to a list of witnesses: Distfile:\ SIZE:\ MD5:\ URL:\ WITNESS:\ CONTACT:\ DATE imap_tools_V1.135.tar.gz:\ 108952:\ a7c34141b7512bff69f6ea86952c83bb:\ http://ftp7.freebsd.org/sites/ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/%5Bpage=123%5D \ -> \ http://ftp7.freebsd.org/sites/ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/imap_tools_V1.135.tar.gz\ Julian H. Stacey:\ http://berklix.com/~jhs/contact/:\ Tue Apr 10 14:30:17 CEST 2012 Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, & indent with "> ". Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. Mail from @yahoo dumped @berklix. http://berklix.org/yahoo/