[Bug 276387] x11/xvt: removes DEPRECIATED and returns it to MAINTAINER

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=276387

Koichiro Iwao <meta@FreeBSD.org> changed:

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--- Comment #8 from Koichiro Iwao <meta@FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to Gleb Popov from comment #7)

I think that it is fine to keep ports in the tree if the port has a maintainer
still willing to maintain them and the maintainer pays some cost to keep the
ports working effectively.

For example, I quit maintaining net/tightvnc and marked it as deprecated
because of multiple vulnerabilities, the last release was in 2009 and there is
a replacement such as net/tigervnc-{viewer,server} in ports tree. After the
expiration date, it was removed from ports tree but resurrected by a new
maintainer.  New maintainer dinoex@ created patches to fix vulnerabilities.

https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/net/tightvnc/Makefile?id=e2ce35496ec36b520b7a25aeea1f4111449dcf12
https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/net/tightvnc/Makefile?id=f374ddf115d4f8d15c5f255c0a0be756f986bd66


Personally, I agree that x11/xvt is outdated, old-school software not widely
used but I would like to respect the maintainer's decision to keep maintain
this time. The trigger marking this as deprecated is the absence of a
maintainer but it was an accident (domain unavailability).

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