Re: x11-fonts/gentium-basic port has been deleted preventing portmaster from completing upgrade

From: Dag-Erling_Smørgrav <des_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2025 15:46:19 UTC
Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> This was a routine removal of an outdated port: as the message states,
> you should `pkg delete gentium-basic` install x11-fonts/gentium in its
> place to provide the Gentium font face.

The message does not in fact state this.

% grep gentium-basic MOVED
x11-fonts/google-fonts||2025-12-04|Has expired: Depends on expired x11-fonts/gentium-basic
x11-fonts/gentium-basic||2025-12-04|Has expired: Superceeded by Gentium-7.000 https://software.sil.org/gentium/download/

If you wanted to tell people to switch to x11-fonts/gentium, you should
have put it in the second column of the x11-fonts/gentium-basic entry,
and x11-fonts/google-fonts should have been updated instead of deleted.

DES
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