Re: git: 70b186d9251f - main - textproc/webcpp: undeprecate and improve the port (+)

Reply: Gleb Popov : "Re: git: 70b186d9251f - main - textproc/webcpp: undeprecate and improve the port (+)"
In reply to: Daniel Engberg : "Re: git: 70b186d9251f - main - textproc/webcpp: undeprecate and improve the port (+)"
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From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 20:52:23 UTC

On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 10:02:39PM +0200, Daniel Engberg wrote:
> On 2025-04-29 20:45, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > commit 70b186d9251f6fbf7011efabc17e3913a00daa09
> > 
> >    textproc/webcpp: undeprecate and improve the port (+)
> 
> Can you please elaborate on the purpose of this? It's not maintained
> upstream and the tree isn't a software museum?

It fetches, builds, and works fine.  I see no reason for deprecation.

> See also https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=547528

"abandoned upstream; low popcon; FTBFS" => first two are irrelevant,
builds on FreeBSD.

> and yes, there are active alternatives

Good, let's port them as well.  Every useful piece of software should
be ported, regardless of upstream activity.

./danfe