cvs commit: ports/sysutils/screenie Makefile pkg-descr

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Wed Sep 29 08:15:42 UTC 2010


On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 09:00:06AM +0200, Erwin Lansing wrote:
> This case is actually actively taken care of, although of course some
> cases will fall through the cracks.  Portmgr does occassionally run a
> full build of all ports on the pointyhat cluster with local caching
> turned off, forcing all ports to be fetch from the configured
> MASTER_SITES.  In fact, I started one just yesterday.  Maintainers will
> be informed and unmaintained ports will be marked BROKEN, and lateron
> scheduled for deletion.  But like you said, there will still be cases
> that will fall through and we do need to get better at removing stale
> ports.

I think people would also appreciate more clear criteria on when to mark
port as deprecated.  For now the only one I know is "being broken and
unmaintained for 6-12 months".  Availability of distfile and master site
does not seem enough.  Unpatched security issue, on contrary, could
encourage deprecation with shorter expiration period.

./danfe


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