git: 60955c0a0956 - main - Remove expired ports:

[Torsten Zuehlsdorff]

On 01.05.21 14:38, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Sat, May 01, 2021 at 02:30:46PM +0200, Stefan Esser wrote:
>> Am 01.05.21 um 13:24 schrieb Rene Ladan:
>>> The branch main has been updated by rene:
>>>
>>> URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/ports/commit/?id=60955c0a095630cce5f46ee0a80c8372eb9ab416
>>>
>>> commit 60955c0a095630cce5f46ee0a80c8372eb9ab416
>>> Author:     Rene Ladan <rene at FreeBSD.org>
>>> AuthorDate: 2021-05-01 11:24:21 +0000
>>> Commit:     Rene Ladan <rene at FreeBSD.org>
>>> CommitDate: 2021-05-01 11:24:21 +0000
>>>
>>>      Remove expired ports:
>>>      
>>>      2021-04-01 multimedia/transcode: Unmaintained and dead upstream, does not build with -fno-common (llvm 11)
>>>      2021-02-28 x11-toolkits/p5-Gnome2-VFS: Deprecated by the Gtk-Perl project. No more security patches and bug fixes
>>>      2021-02-28 x11-toolkits/p5-Gnome2: Deprecated by the Gtk-Perl project. No more security patches and bug fixes
>>>      2021-05-01 multimedia/dvdrip: Depends on expired multimedia/transcode
>>>      2021-05-01 multimedia/subtitleripper: Depends on expired multimedia/transcode
>>>      2021-05-01 multimedia/mkxvcd: Depends on expired multimedia/transcode
>>>      2021-05-01 deskutils/shutter: Upstream gone, depends on expired x11-toolkits/p5-Gnome2-VFS
>>>      2021-05-01 misc/gcstar: Depends on expired x11-toolkits/p5-Gnome2-VFS
>>
>> Regarding transcode: Has this really been necessary?
>>
>> I'm loosing working ports all the time, because of these removals due to
>> -fno-common build issues!
> 
> Yet noone has fixed them since they are marked as broken (and not PR opened)
> which shows noone was interested into it. They are easy to resurrect if we need
> to.

I am sorry, but a none-existing PR does not mean "no interest". In the 
PHP section of the portstree i receive regular mails where the senders 
are not even aware of the bugzilla. And when made aware they just do not 
use it.

No PR just mean "No one with enough knowledge about the FreeBSD 
infrastructure and sufficient free time and enough self-confidence has 
written a PR".

Not all of our users are as good as we are. We should never forget about 
this.

Best,
Torsten