Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 23:47:07 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.org> To: ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r340675 - head/net/pchar Message-ID: <201401212347.s0LNl72c034523@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: bmah Date: Tue Jan 21 23:47:07 2014 New Revision: 340675 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/340675 QAT: https://qat.redports.org/buildarchive/r340675/ Log: Schedule net/pchar for deletion. I am the upstream author of this software. pchar was originally developed in a time before store-and-forward switches were common on LANs. Its algorithms assumed that there is only one packet queue per IP hop. Almost every modern network violates this assumption; thus pchar will return incorrect results in the vast majority of environments where it could be used today. In addition, I have not supported this software for over ten years. For these reasons I am scheduling this port for removal. Approved by: mat (mentor) Modified: head/net/pchar/Makefile Modified: head/net/pchar/Makefile ============================================================================== --- head/net/pchar/Makefile Tue Jan 21 23:40:21 2014 (r340674) +++ head/net/pchar/Makefile Tue Jan 21 23:47:07 2014 (r340675) @@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR= bmah MAINTAINER= ports@FreeBSD.org COMMENT= Sandia Internet path characterization tool +DEPRECATED= Obsolete, abandoned +EXPIRATION_DATE=2014-05-01 + GNU_CONFIGURE= yes MAN8= pchar.8
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