Time to mark portupgrade deprecated?

[Steve Wills]

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On 07/24/11 22:20, Eitan Adler wrote:
> At this point noone is maintaining portupgrade any more and a large
> number of PRs have been filed against it (see
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?text=portupgrade). No
> one has stepped up to do the work to fix these bugs so it is time to
> officially drop it.

Personally, I agree it's time to drop it if no one is going to do the
work to maintain it, which at this point it seems clear is not going to
happen. I'd be happy to be proven wrong about that.

So the question becomes, how do we go about doing it? First step would
be changing the handbook. Most UPDATING entries seem to include both
portupgrade and portmaster instructions these days, so that should be
covered. The next issue would be warning portupgrade users, perhaps by
marking the port DEPRECATED? I'd think a date a little longer than the
usual month would be needed before expiring.

Steve
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