Are broken ports retested before performing scheduled removal?

[Chris]

On Wed, 13 May 2020 16:24:17 -0700 Edward Sanford Sutton, III mirror176 at hotmail.com said

> games/oneko was recently removed as it was marked broken due to being
> unfetchable. I tried an old copy of the ports tree I had where it was
> marked as such and `make fetch -DTRYBROKEN` succeeded. Was there an
> error recorded for this and was it ever retested? Is this just a side
> effect of having a failure and no maintainer?
>  If being removed as unfetchable, wouldn't a better MOVED entry be to
> say it was unfetchable (for more than 6 months) instead of just broken
> for more than 6 months?
> Thanks for feedback
I just made an attempt with
make -DBATCH fetch
This was the output I recieved
===>   oneko-2.0b_5 depends on file: /usr/local/sbin/pkg - found
=> oneko-2.0b.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/oneko.
=> Attempting to fetch http://www.3bit.co.jp/~sasaki/oneko/oneko-2.0b.tar.gz
oneko-2.0b.tar.gz                             100% of   84 kB  111 kBps 00m00s
=> oneko-2.0b-pop1.1-patch.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/oneko.
=> Attempting to fetch http://www.3bit.co.jp/~sasaki/oneko/oneko-2.0b-pop1.1-patch.tar.gz
oneko-2.0b-pop1.1-patch.tar.gz                100% of   17 kB   50 kBps 00m00s
=> oneko-2.0b-tip1.7.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/oneko.
=> Attempting to fetch http://www.net24.ne.jp/~ryo2/archives/oneko-2.0b-tip1.7.tar.gz
fetch: http://www.net24.ne.jp/~ryo2/archives/oneko-2.0b-tip1.7.tar.gz: Not Found
=> Attempting to fetch http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/ports-distfiles/oneko/oneko-2.0b-tip1.7.tar.gz
oneko-2.0b-tip1.7.tar.gz                      100% of   62 kB 1719 kBps 00m00s
=> oneko-2.0b-sender0.5.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/oneko.
=> Attempting to fetch http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~hsaka/distfiles/oneko-2.0b-sender0.5.tar.gz
oneko-2.0b-sender0.5.tar.gz                   100% of   41 kB  154 kBps 00m00s
=> oneko-2.0b-bsd0.2.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/oneko.
=> Attempting to fetch http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~hsaka/distfiles/oneko-2.0b-bsd0.2.tar.gz
oneko-2.0b-bsd0.2.tar.gz                      100% of   21 kB  159 kBps 00m00s
===> Fetching all distfiles required by oneko-2.0b_5 for building

As you can see, oneko-2.0b-tip1.7.tar.gz failed, and required freebsd's discache.
All the rest of them worked. :-)

--Chris