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Date:      Wed, 21 Aug 2019 13:45:29 -0700
From:      jgh <jgh@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Mathieu Arnold" <mat@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "Mark Linimon" <linimon@lonesome.com>, "ports-committers" <ports-committers@freebsd.org>, "svn-ports-all" <svn-ports-all@freebsd.org>, "svn-ports-head" <svn-ports-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r509446 - in head: . databases databases/palm-db-tools palm palm/palm-db-tools
Message-ID:  <16cb5ed6315.d2245e44109849.4019883372521431145@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20190821201751.dxxzq35gduuiai3n@atuin.in.mat.cc>
References:  <201908201905.x7KJ5n8O010915@repo.freebsd.org> <20190820192227.GA30399@lonesome.com> <16cb07d5e1d.cd958a1b144542.5834773604499913477@FreeBSD.org> <20190821201751.dxxzq35gduuiai3n@atuin.in.mat.cc>

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 ---- On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 13:17:51 -0700 Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org> wrote ----
 > On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 12:25:01PM -0700, jgh wrote:
 > > 
 > > 
 > > 
 > >  ---- On Tue, 20 Aug 2019 12:22:28 -0700 Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote ----
 > >  > On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 07:05:49PM +0000, Jason Helfman wrote:
 > >  > >   - shift to more applicable category
 > >  > 
 > >  > I ... guess I don't understand the motivation here.
 > >  > 
 > >  > I don't think I've touched any of my PalmPilot gear in 10+ years.
 > >  > They're all in a box ... somewhere.  AFAIK it's a dead platform.
 > >  > 
 > >  > Why don't we just deprecate and remove these ports?
 > >  > 
 > >  > mcl
 > >  > 
 > >  > 
 > > 
 > > I saw thirteen in the category. I wanted to move the ones that were ports@ owned to different categories. I am mailing the owners of the others regarding shifting their categories, and will also ask them about deprecating the ports, as well, if they see that as valuable.
 > 
 > So, would you mind answering the "why" question ?
 > 
 > -- 
 > Mathieu Arnold
 > 

We should and I've started deprecating the ports where maintainer was not ports@. I plan on adding deprecations to the others, but first wanted to move what I could.
-jgh




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