Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 14:16:09 -0600 From: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ Attic URLs, eg for ports/mail/demime ? Message-ID: <CACdU%2Bf_LG9TO-XXW6wVtYaSswipei4UFi1WfXLA58aY8OYLPzw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412280537420.25268@aneurin.horsfall.org> References: <201412270230.sBR2UIq3071725@fire.js.berklix.net> <549E5ED5.50103@gmx.de> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412280537420.25268@aneurin.horsfall.org>
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On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote: > On Sat, 27 Dec 2014, olli hauer wrote: > >> $ grep demime /usr/ports/MOVED >> mail/demime||2011-12-28|Has expired: No upstream development since 2007 > > Is it the practice of FreeBSD to remove ports that are so stable that > there is no need to modify them any further? > It is not the practice of FreeBSD to remove stable ports. There are several reasons a stable port may be removed: 1. Licensing 2. source is no longer available and no one willing to host the last version of the sources 3. Port Maintainer has abandoned the port and no one is willing to keep the port maintained (i.e stage support) In this case, the port maintainer asked: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2011-October/070886.html On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > As it stands now, the mail/demime port has no "upstream", and > development seems to have stopped at least 2 years ago. > > Does anyone use this? > > If so, would someone like to _become_ "upstream" and revive this piece > of software? > > Otherwise, I'll mark this port as deprecated in 1 week and have it > scheduled for removal 1 month afterwards. > > Thanks. > > -- > Glen Barber > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" The answers to this message advised that there were alternatives to demime. -- DISCLAIMER: No electrons were maimed while sending this message. Only slightly bruised.
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