Evasive action may be needed: graphics/xfig-devel port deleted

[David Wolfskill]

I found out about this during may normal daily "portmaster -ad" run,
which is one of the worst points for it to happen, as:

...
===>>> The graphics/xfig-devel port has been deleted: Has expired: Stable version is more recent than devel version
===>>> Aborting update

Terminated

Script done on Wed Nov 28 04:21:13 2012


As I had actually checked /usr/ports/UPDATING (so I would know in
advance of running portmaster of any evasive action I might need to
take), and saw that the most recent entry was still the one for
devel/git from 12 Nov, I was rather surprised (and not in a good way).

After running "portmaster -o graphics/xfig graphics/xfig-devel", I was
able to proceed, but I would have appreciated an UPDATING entry.

There were some other ports deleted in graphics:

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r307900 | bapt | 2012-11-28 03:17:55 -0800 (Wed, 28 Nov 2012) | 14 lines

2012-11-26 ftp/mget: No more public distfiles
2012-11-26 graphics/yap: No more public distfiles
2012-11-26 games/demonquake: No more public distfiles
2012-11-26 databases/php-sqlrelay: No more public distfiles
2012-11-26 devel/fastdep: No more public distfiles
2012-11-26 graphics/svgviewer: No more public distfiles
2012-11-26 comms/garmin-utils: No more public distfiles
2012-11-26 comms/snooper: No more public distfiles
2012-11-26 graphics/xfig-devel: Stable version is more recent than devel version
2012-11-26 irc/irchat-jp: No more public distfiles
2012-11-26 games/xcogitate: No more public distfiles

Feature safe:   yes

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so folks who use any of those might want to make note (and take
appropriate action).

Peace,
david
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