From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 12 07:48:32 2007 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 D90C916A41B for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:48:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-ports@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E28013C4EB for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:48:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-ports@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1J2MKI-00076Z-7d for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:48:18 +0000 Received: from jolt.modeemi.cs.tut.fi ([130.230.72.144]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:48:18 +0000 Received: from tuomov by jolt.modeemi.cs.tut.fi with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:48:18 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org From: Tuomo Valkonen Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:48:03 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <20071212073944.GC29211@soaustin.net> X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: jolt.modeemi.cs.tut.fi User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Debian) Sender: news Subject: Re: Ion3 license violation 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: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:48:32 -0000 On 2007-12-12, Mark Linimon wrote: > I have marked it as DEPRECATED. And this shows to a user trying to install it, how? > Note: we've had a ports freeze and updates were not accepted during this > time. The maintainer's activity or inactivity is thus not germane. The "maintainer" has not bothered even replying to a similar message I sent him earlier. (Well, if there's something good to be said, at least there was a clear contact address in the package this time. Something that distros tend to hide.) And if he really "maintains" the package, he should have marked is deprecated before the freeze. But distros don't maintain marginal packages, they just throw them in and expect the author to deal with the distro's users with the random snapshot that happened to be there at the megafreeze time. -- Tuomo