Ports scheduled for removal on Nov 7

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Friday,  8 August 2003 at 18:55:05 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 11:04:14AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> On Thursday,  7 August 2003 at 21:53:34 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>> The following ports are scheduled for removal on November 7 if they
>>> are still broken at that time and no PRs have been submitted to fix
>>> them.  If you are interested in saving these ports, please send your
>>> patches to the maintainer.  If the maintainer is unresponsive or the
>>> port has no maintainer, then please submit them via send-pr.
>>
>> I don't see anything that worries me, but some of th things look
>> relatively familiar.  Would it not be a good idea to distribute this
>> list more widely so that users can be warned
>
> So far I have:
>
> * mailed the maintainers
> * force-committed to every affected port
> * mailed to the port mailing list.
>
> What more do you suggest?

As I said: inform the users.  This might be material for
FreeBSD-announce.  It seems also reasonable to spam FreeBSD-questions
with it.

Greg
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