FreeBSD Port: devel/libsysinfo

[Mathieu Arnold]

Le 22/09/2016 à 13:37, Kurt Jaeger a écrit :
> Hi!
>
>> which depends on libsysinfo 0.0.2_1, GNU libc's sysinfo port for FreeBSD
>> devel/libsysinfo
>> which is now
>> "BROKEN: Unfetchable (google code has gone away)"
>>
>> LXDE is a very nice lightweight desktop environment
>> that I have been using while waiting for the LXQt port.
>>
>> I am preparing to upgrade to FreeBSD 11 and recompile my system.
>>
>> Will the ports formally hosted by google code find a new host soon?
> Only if you provide one -- and a patch for the port.
> There's discussion on how to handle the vanished google code repo
> and it's not decided yet.

There is no discussion, there are two possibilities for each port:

- The software for the port has a new home, the port should be updated
to reflect that
- The software for the port is dead, and if nobody adopts it (by that, I
mean become upstream), it will eventually be removed.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold


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