expiration of net/skype ?!

Ion-Mihai Tetcu itetcu at FreeBSD.org
Mon May 2 11:20:59 UTC 2011


On Mon, 2 May 2011 12:14:37 +0100
Chris Rees <utisoft at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2 May 2011 10:03, Matthias Andree <mandree at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Am 02.05.2011 10:49, schrieb Chris Rees:
> >
> >>> or otherwise issue a hint
> >>> that the port is kept for the benefit of those who happen to have a
> >>> distfile.
> >>
> >> Which is what, thirty people?
> >
> > I don't care. Let's not deliberately break the port for those who can
> > still use it.
> >
> > Please remove the EXPIRATION_DATE; I'm also willing to "maintain" the
> > port if needed.
> >
> 
> Although the port is already broken (no-one is deliberately breaking it), there
> is a possible (temporary) solution for those who want to use their own distfile.
> 
> ITetcu, miwi, please would you have a look at [1]? It's partly lifted
> from the diablo
> ports; just makes it more convenient if one has the distfile already,
> as well as using
> IGNORE rather than BROKEN; we know it won't ever build.
> 
> Chris
> 
> [1] http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/patches/skype-distfile.diff

Looks good; I was convinced something like this was already committed.

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Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu at FreeBSD.org>


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