port unmaintained since 2005? drop it? misc/gpt*

[Robert Simmons]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 4:31 AM,  <perryh at pluto.rain.com> wrote:
> Michael Scheidell <scheidell at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> Two unmaintained ports, nothing depends on them, and upstream has
>> not updated source since 2004, ftp server unresponsive.
>>
>> <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/misc/gpt31/Makefile>
>> (gpt32: misc/gpt also unmaintained since 2005.
>>
>> <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/misc/gpt/Makefile>
>> ftp server mentioned doesn't respond (ftp.freebsd.org has distfile),
>> upstream unmaintained since 2004, and upstream points to a different
>> distfile (with different checksum and same version number), mentions
>> an alpha version 4.0.
>
> These are originally from NCSA, but the website mentioned in
> the pkg-descr (http://www.gridpackagingtools.org/) now seems to
> be promoting some kind of diet/nutritional approach.  The only
> connection to "middleware" that immediately comes to mind is that
> such sites tend to be frequented by those concerned about excessive
> weight around their middle :)
>
> Dunno what (if anything) they are currently good for, but it seems
> that, at a minimum, the PORTVERSION and/or MASTER_SITES -- and the
> pkg-descr -- need to be updated.

I would have to think that that is a remnant of a project that is no
longer running.  The current owners of that domain are squatters:

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