svn commit: r407270 - head/ports-mgmt/portmaster

[Kubilay Kocak]

On 27/01/2016 6:07 PM, John Marino wrote:
> As I said previously, this commit does not do anything except warn the
> user about portmaster so they are aware of the serious performance and
> maintenance issues that it has.  There is no expiration date.

This statement is false. The change also adds a recommendation
preferentially for a particular replacement for both tier one architectures.

Given you are the author of the recommended package, this is biased at
best, if not a conflict of interest.

I find no issue with notifying users that portmaster is *currently*
unmaintained and has open issues, and that support can't *currently* be
provided for it.

However, I don't believe we ought take actions that hasten its demise.
In fact, I believe a statement to the effect that we *want* someone to
take maintainership in order to avoid further bitrot would be worthwhile.

Given what the term 'deprecated' implies, I would use a pre-everything:
message instead.