Re: git: f45b1d07f50b - main - many: Unsupported Go dep; deprecate and schedule for removal

On Sat, Dec 06, 2025 at 02:21:59PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > > Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > > >  www/forgejo7/Makefile                        | 3 +++
> > > Congratulations on successfully deprecating an already-deprecated port:
> > Please avoid sarcastic remarks. They don’t move the conversation forward
> > and make collaboration unnecessarily difficult.
> 
> You mean unlike Adam's heavihanded commit to 73 ports he does not
> maintain and the longwinded, condescending, and vaguely threatening
> email he sent to their maintainers?

I never said that the technical content of your message was incorrect;
my only point was that the general tone with the sarcasm and
aggressivity was unnecessary and unhelpful.

> Adam is in the wrong here, and I would be in my rights to request a
> revert of his commit, which is based on a false premise and was clearly
> not preceded by any sort of testing of the ports he forcibly deprecated.

Adam is trying to move things forward, and the intention behind his
change was reasonable, even if parts of the execution can be discussed.

> If Adam truly wanted to be helpful, he could have implemented the M.N+
> syntax which I and others have requested in Mk/Uses/go.mk and converted
> these ports to use 1.23+ instead of 1.23.

If you believe there are shortcomings in the framework, the constructive
way to address them is to propose a patch or start a technical
discussion, not to complain without offering a solution.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold