svn commit: r367769 - in head: . emulators emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod-legacy emulators/virtualbox-ose-legacy

[Bryan Drewery]

On 9/9/2014 4:13 PM, John Marino wrote:
> On 9/9/2014 22:01, Bernhard Fröhlich wrote:
>> We have obviously come to a point where people remove ports which are
>> working fine and are used by quite a lot of people just to make sure
>> that as a FreeBSD user you have a hard life. Well done. Now go on and do
>> your shit to linux.
> 
> Let me get this straight.  You're a former portmgr.  you've known all
> ports had to be staged before Sept 1 for months.  You were personally
> notified by bdrewery 3 weeks ago that this port had an unstaged
> dependency which means would be removed 1 september.  After all that,
> not only do you seem surprised and unaware (for which you have no
> excuse), you are also rude.
> 
> If you don't want unstaged ports removed, stage them before the
> deadline.  And look in the mirror if you want to blame somebody.
> 
> John
> 

virtualbox-ose-kmod-legacy does not have a dependency on unstaged
emulators/virtualbox-ose-legacy. Naturally decke@ was not notified.

It is not proper to remove a port without a deprecation period if it
works and has no other reason to be removed.

btw decke@ still is a portmgr.

-- 
Regards,
Bryan Drewery

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