Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:34:42 +0000 From: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: deprecated ports Message-ID: <AANLkTi=wW0MjXZJU%2BQZ=QpvjP3b3yedor1RO3sOepTR5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110316124112.GC23957@lonesome.com> References: <AANLkTi=ydf%2BWTE%2B8swRVD7sbYsmJiQj7vX=cHV7FFrSY@mail.gmail.com> <20110316124112.GC23957@lonesome.com>
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On 3/16/11, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 06:15:11AM +0000, b. f. wrote: >> But it's not clear to me why, for example, some usable fonts were >> deprecated -- fonts often don't have homepages. > > The deprecations are (currently) advisory-only. > > If people are using these ports, and want to keep them, then they need > to step up with either hosting the distfiles, becoming the upstream > maintainers, or in the best case, both. Yes, I understand. My point was only that true-type fonts are unlikely to require much maintenance, and the distfiles will probably be locally mirrored in any event, so it hardly seems worth the trouble to deprecate them on the basis of the criteria that were mentioned. b.
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