Re: git: 46b4854f7068 - main - science/paraview: remove LAS support

On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 08:16:08PM +0100, Thierry Thomas wrote:
> Le mar. 13 févr. 24 à  4:47:07 +0100, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
>  écrivait :
> > On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 04:03:20PM +0000, Thierry Thomas wrote:
> > > commit 46b4854f7068098ea9498e97604a6d724656fa95
> > > 
> > >   science/paraview: remove LAS support
> > > 
> > >   Even though libLAS is still functional, it is scheduled to be removed.
> > 
> > If it's functional, then why remove it?  Deprecation notice says that
> > upstream no longer continuing but the latest commit on their GitHub repo
> > was last month.
> 
> Agreed!
> 
> I’d like portmgr to write a policy about ports deprecation / removal.
> 
> The case of devel/liblas is a very good example:
> - no known vulnerability;
> - upstream still exists and the tarball is fetchable;
> - it is used as a dependency by other ports.
> 
> They even marked ParaView, an important port, to be removed just because
> it used libLAS as a dependency: this is not acceptable!

For the record, marking ParaView deprecated was only with my personal hat on,
not that of portmgr.

René