svn commit: r340675 - head/net/pchar

[Bruce A. Mah]

Author: bmah
Date: Tue Jan 21 23:47:07 2014
New Revision: 340675
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/340675
QAT: https://qat.redports.org/buildarchive/r340675/

Log:
  Schedule net/pchar for deletion.
  
  I am the upstream author of this software.  pchar was originally
  developed in a time before store-and-forward switches were common on
  LANs.  Its algorithms assumed that there is only one packet queue per IP
  hop.  Almost every modern network violates this assumption; thus pchar
  will return incorrect results in the vast majority of environments where
  it could be used today.  In addition, I have not supported this software
  for over ten years.  For these reasons I am scheduling this port for
  removal.
  
  Approved by:	mat (mentor)

Modified:
  head/net/pchar/Makefile

Modified: head/net/pchar/Makefile
==============================================================================
--- head/net/pchar/Makefile	Tue Jan 21 23:40:21 2014	(r340674)
+++ head/net/pchar/Makefile	Tue Jan 21 23:47:07 2014	(r340675)
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR=	bmah
 MAINTAINER=	ports at FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Sandia Internet path characterization tool
 
+DEPRECATED=	Obsolete, abandoned
+EXPIRATION_DATE=2014-05-01
+
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
 MAN8=		pchar.8