Re: git: 9cc1206e67a9 - main - */*: Deprecate ports and set expiration date to 2025-12-31

From: Daniel Engberg <diizzy_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:31:50 UTC
On 2025-10-15 16:14, Robert Clausecker wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> A port being unmaintained is not a usual reason to deprecate and
> remove it.  Dead upstream would be, but that is clearly not the
> case for most of them:
> 
>   - dos2ansi: last commit 7 months ago
>   - poser: last commit last week
>   - tlsc: last commit 2 years ago, perhaps ok to deprecate
>   - unix-selfauth-helper: last commit 2 years ago, used by several
>     other ports
>   - xmoji: last commit 5 months ago
> 
> Please back this out.
> 
> Yours,
> Robert Clausecker
> 
> Am Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 04:11:09AM +0000 schrieb Daniel Engberg:
>> The branch main has been updated by diizzy:
>>
>> URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/ports/commit/?id=9cc1206e67a9d3c141526856bb592de94bdd4438
>>
>> commit 9cc1206e67a9d3c141526856bb592de94bdd4438
>> Author:     Daniel Engberg <diizzy@FreeBSD.org>
>> AuthorDate: 2025-10-13 22:33:21 +0000
>> Commit:     Daniel Engberg <diizzy@FreeBSD.org>
>> CommitDate: 2025-10-15 04:09:44 +0000
>>
>>      */*: Deprecate ports and set expiration date to 2025-12-31
>>      
>>      Follow up on 1b25bcd52d9cf8118a4d1e3e1fa2da85747f81d8, deprecate ports
>>      where committer also is upstream as these now are unmaintained
>> ---
>>   converters/dos2ansi/Makefile           | 3 +++
>>   devel/poser/Makefile                   | 3 +++
>>   security/tlsc/Makefile                 | 3 +++
>>   security/unix-selfauth-helper/Makefile | 3 +++
>>   x11/xmoji/Makefile                     | 3 +++
>>   5 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
> 

So we're back to topics of bofh's talk. There are more than two months 
left to adopt ports of which people already have done as of writing ( 
converters/dos2ansi ). That being said, most using desktop env should 
probably be interested in adopting security/unix-selfauth-helper .

Best regards,
Daniel