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Date:      Sat, 13 Mar 2021 00:16:04 -0500
From:      Steve Wills <swills@FreeBSD.org>
To:        d@delphij.net, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r568214 - head/archivers/bzip2
Message-ID:  <032512e1-a1ee-7ada-b9f9-9b40ef5de939@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <c202f61e-496a-d57c-9e90-910750705c01@delphij.net>
References:  <202103122337.12CNbBa9003493@repo.freebsd.org> <c202f61e-496a-d57c-9e90-910750705c01@delphij.net>

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Hi,

On 3/12/21 8:56 PM, Xin Li wrote:
> 
> My $0.02: we should probably just remove this port.
> 
> We have bundled bzip2 in the base system for almost two decades, and
> there is no port depending on it.  The port system expects
> /usr/bin/bzip2 and expects base system tar to recognize it, and bzip2
> 1.0.7 introduced a quite visible regression, the fact that we have it
> for 2 years suggests that there is no real users of it at all...

I agree, feel free.

Steve




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