I see there's been another few batch commits deprecating some unmaintained ports where "upstream is gone and/or distfile is no longer available."
Maintainers and prospective maintainers should be sure to look at the ports listed in these commits. I don't think much effort was made to check the availability of the distfiles. Instead, it seems that all that was done was to try the MASTER_SITES, etc. from the port Makefiles, and if the fetch failed, onto the list they went. NOTE: I'm NOT saying the committers' procedure was too lazy or anything like that. There are a lot of these broken ports in the tree, and deprecation seems like a reasonable step to take -- especially if the result is to trigger some action from people who want to see these ports retained. I just rescued one of these, sysutils/lookat, that was deprecated a few days ago. I followed the WWW link in the pkg-descr, found that the author's website was still up and that the distfile could still be downloaded -- but the download url had changed. So all the port needed was a tweak to the MASTER_SITES. Today I see that the fairly popular graphics/gimpshop has also been deprecated. Here the WWW link from pkg-descr also fails, but a quick websearch found the new (?) official website for this app: http://www.gimpshop.com, where the distfile is available for download. So here's another one that can be easily rescued. And I'll bet there are more. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"