audio/adpcm (Re: FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently scheduled for deletion)

Chris Rees crees at freebsd.org
Mon Aug 22 08:47:30 UTC 2011


On 22 August 2011 03:24, Mikhail T. <mi+thun at aldan.algebra.com> wrote:
> On -10.01.-28163 14:59, linimon at FreeBSD.org wrote:
>>
>> portname:           audio/adpcm
>> description:        An Intel/DVI IMA ADPCM codec library
>> maintainer:ports at FreeBSD.org
>> deprecated because: No more public distfiles
>> expiration date:    2011-09-01
>> build errors:       none.
>>
>> overview:http://portsmon.FreeBSD.org/portoverview.py?category=audio&portname=adpcm
>
> At least in this particular case, I don't think, the removal is warranted.
>
> The public distfiles disappeared not because of a deliberate action by the
> developer or copyright-holder, but simply because the entire ftp.cwi.nl is
> now gone. Sites continue to host the file -- we should allow CWI.net to sort
> things out with their FTP-server (or, perhaps, they intend to offer the same
> code over HTTP later).

Could you add those extra sites to MASTER_SITES then please?

Chris


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