Gnats port disappeared??

[Chris Rees]

On 14 January 2012 20:12,  <vwe at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi Chris!
> On 01/14/12 17:41, Chris Rees wrote:
>>
>> Hey Mark,
>>
>> Got a bit of a shock:
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/databases/gnats/Attic/Makefile
>>
>> Did you know about this?  It's innocent and reasonable, but possibly a
>> mistake.
>>
>> I was going to prepare a patch for GNATS so it didn't get confused by
>> subjects like
>>
>> Fwd: Re: ports/152537: [patch] database/postgresql90-server no longer
>> needs
>>
>> Would there be interest in such a patch?  Would you like the port
>> resurrected, or should I just let you use a local copy?
>
>
> Latest databases/gnats Makefile had this for a while before removal of the
> port:
>
> FORBIDDEN=      Security issues
> DEPRECATED=     ${FORBIDDEN}
> EXPIRATION_DATE=        2011-09-30
>
> So it's clearly not a mistake, but a portsmgr decision.
>
> Also everything else has to be decided by portsmgr but a port with unfixed
> security issues over a long period of time seems a good candidate to be
> removed.

Yes, thank you, I did review the change history ;)

I saw that dougb had given the port an expiry as part of a large
commit, and miwi had removed it as part of another large commit.

Innocent actions, but the history indicated it was swept away as
collateral, rather than portmgr approved.

Chris