ports/100910: [maintainer update] Deprecate misc/pointless

[Christian Laursen]

>Number:         100910
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       [maintainer update] Deprecate misc/pointless
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          maintainer-update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jul 27 09:10:16 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Christian Laursen
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p1 i386
>Organization:
The Border Worlds 
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD talaxian.borderworlds.dk 6.1-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p1 #1: Fri Jun 9 22:07:53 CEST 2006 root at talaxian.borderworlds.dk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TALAXIAN i386


	
>Description:
There hasn't been a release of pointless in over two and a half years and the
development mailing list has been dead for some time too. Furthermore local
pacthes have been needed since python 2.4 was added to the ports tree.

I seriously doubt that anyone uses this port.
	
>How-To-Repeat:
	
>Fix:

	

--- pointless.diff begins here ---
diff -urN /usr/ports/misc/pointless/Makefile pointless/Makefile
--- /usr/ports/misc/pointless/Makefile	Tue Nov 15 07:50:10 2005
+++ pointless/Makefile	Thu Jul 27 11:01:26 2006
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@
 		${LOCALBASE}/bin/mpost:${PORTSDIR}/print/teTeX
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${BUILD_DEPENDS}
 
+DEPRECATED=		No longer actively maintained
+EXPIRATION_DATE=	2006-10-01
+
 USE_GL=		yes
 USE_PYTHON=	yes
 
--- pointless.diff ends here ---


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