svn commit: r426114 - head/archivers/tclmkziplib

Pietro Cerutti gahr at FreeBSD.org
Mon Nov 14 15:50:00 UTC 2016


Author: gahr
Date: Mon Nov 14 15:49:58 2016
New Revision: 426114
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/426114

Log:
  archivers/tclmkziplib: mark as DEPRECATED, scheduled for removal on 2017-01-15
  
  This is abandonware, the C code is in a pretty bad shape, and fails to build on
  aarch64. Please consider using the bundled zlib package from Tcl:
  http://tcl.tk/man/tcl8.6/TclCmd/zlib.htm

Modified:
  head/archivers/tclmkziplib/Makefile

Modified: head/archivers/tclmkziplib/Makefile
==============================================================================
--- head/archivers/tclmkziplib/Makefile	Mon Nov 14 15:13:30 2016	(r426113)
+++ head/archivers/tclmkziplib/Makefile	Mon Nov 14 15:49:58 2016	(r426114)
@@ -11,7 +11,11 @@ DISTNAME=	mkZiplib${PORTVERSION:S/.//}
 MAINTAINER=	tcltk at FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	GZIP and ZIP support for TCL; dynamically loadable
 
+LICENSE=	MIT
+
 BROKEN_aarch64=	Fails to build: error: operand of type va_list where arithmetic or pointer type is required
+DEPRECATED=	Abandonware, please use bundled zlib package [http://tcl.tk/man/tcl8.6/TclCmd/zlib.htm]
+EXPIRATION_DATE=2017-01-15
 
 USES+=		tcl zip
 


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