[cfr] patch to clean up old Linux ports

[Alexander Leidinger]

On Sat, 09 Mar 2013 16:36:03 +0400
Boris Samorodov <bsam at passap.ru> wrote:

> 09.03.2013 15:16, Alexander Leidinger пишет:
> 
> > The EoL announcement made it clear that ports need to be marked
> > broken if they don't work on 7, so it means the generic ports
> > framework has no hard "doesn't work" (yet).
> 
> As I understand the announcement, those "ports should be marked
> broken", etc. should be done at RELENG_7_EOL tag. Otherwise there is
> no sense at EOL itself.

BROKEN is used to announce as soon as possible that it will not work,
whereas e.g. a compile error on 7 could manifest it self after a long
time of compiling something.

Think also about those people which don't know that 7 is EoL, but still
run portsnap. At one point they may want to install a port and then it
fails. If there's no message what's wrong (the system needs to be
updated), they may spend a lot of time to search the cause of the
problem. With a little helpful message they know directly.

Bye,
Alexander.

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