I have strong opinions against this, at least for ports with an active maintainer. I really see these deprecation campaigns as treading on somebody's toes.
I really like linimon's periodic emails "FreeBSD ports that you maintain which are currently marked broken", which I see as a reminder that there are ports of mine that require action, but going further than that and deprecate a port that I maintain without even informing me in an official way is not what I consider collaboration. Even more so because I don't see any advantage in moving a port from BROKEN to DEPRECATED state. If a user has a working version of the port installed, he will stick to that, otherwise, installation will be frown upon anyway. I and bapt have already exchanged opinions on this subject more than once, and I would now like to see what other people (other maintainers in particular) think about it. Can we please stop this? On 2012-Apr-09, 23:51, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > bapt 2012-04-09 23:51:44 UTC > > FreeBSD ports repository > > Modified files: > games/8kingdoms Makefile > misc/airoflash Makefile > graphics/autopano-sift Makefile > x11/avant-window-navigator-xfce4 Makefile > lang/boo Makefile > x11/cl-clx-sbcl Makefile > palm/coldsync Makefile > print/cups-magicolor Makefile > deskutils/doodle Makefile > games/flightgear-atlas Makefile > games/freeorion Makefile > net-p2p/gnunet Makefile > audio/gstreamer-plugins-flite Makefile > x11-themes/gtk-qt-engine Makefile > science/hdf Makefile > databases/hypertable Makefile > www/kazehakase Makefile > x11-themes/kde-icons-amaranth Makefile > x11-themes/kde-icons-amaranth-althaea Makefile > x11-themes/kde-icons-krystaline Makefile > x11-themes/kde-icons-realistic Makefile > misc/kde3-i18n-hsb Makefile > misc/kde3-i18n-mt Makefile > misc/kde3-i18n-nso Makefile > editors/komodo-edit Makefile > graphics/linux-ac3d Makefile > sysutils/linux-megamgr Makefile > mail/lmtpd Makefile > graphics/long-exposure-tools Makefile > multimedia/moonlight Makefile > devel/nana Makefile > databases/ocaml-pgocaml Makefile > math/octave-devel Makefile > multimedia/p5-Video-Info Makefile > security/pantera Makefile > databases/pear-MDB2_Driver_ibase Makefile > net/perldap Makefile > math/petsc Makefile > math/petsc-mpich Makefile > databases/pg_filedump Makefile > net-im/pino Makefile > chinese/cxterm Makefile > net-p2p/py-bittorrent Makefile > net-p2p/py-bittorrent-core Makefile > games/rigsofrods Makefile > databases/ruby-kyotocabinet Makefile > devel/rubygem-vmc Makefile > cad/salome-gui Makefile > math/scilab-toolbox-sivp Makefile > games/secretmaryochronicles Makefile > games/sfbol Makefile > graphics/solang Makefile > net/spnetkit Makefile > databases/sqlrelay Makefile > devel/subcommander2 Makefile > sysutils/thunar-volman-plugin Makefile > games/wesnoth-devel Makefile > x11/x3270 Makefile > games/xchadance Makefile > x11-drivers/xf86-video-rdc Makefile > deskutils/xfce4-volstatus-icon Makefile > multimedia/xfmedia-remote-plugin Makefile > x11-toolkits/xforms-i18n Makefile > Log: > Mark as deprecated and set expiration to 2012-05-10 for ports that are mark > as broken for more than 6 month > > Revision Changes Path > 1.3 +3 -0 ports/audio/gstreamer-plugins-flite/Makefile > 1.6 +3 -0 ports/cad/salome-gui/Makefile > 1.35 +3 -0 ports/chinese/cxterm/Makefile > 1.8 +3 -0 ports/databases/hypertable/Makefile > 1.6 +3 -0 ports/databases/ocaml-pgocaml/Makefile > 1.7 +3 -0 ports/databases/pear-MDB2_Driver_ibase/Makefile > 1.6 +3 -0 ports/databases/pg_filedump/Makefile > 1.14 +3 -0 ports/databases/ruby-kyotocabinet/Makefile > 1.70 +3 -0 ports/databases/sqlrelay/Makefile > 1.23 +3 -0 ports/deskutils/doodle/Makefile > 1.4 +3 -0 ports/deskutils/xfce4-volstatus-icon/Makefile > 1.13 +3 -0 ports/devel/nana/Makefile > 1.5 +3 -0 ports/devel/rubygem-vmc/Makefile > 1.26 +3 -0 ports/devel/subcommander2/Makefile > 1.18 +3 -0 ports/editors/komodo-edit/Makefile > 1.12 +3 -0 ports/games/8kingdoms/Makefile > 1.32 +3 -0 ports/games/flightgear-atlas/Makefile > 1.31 +3 -0 ports/games/freeorion/Makefile > 1.16 +3 -0 ports/games/rigsofrods/Makefile > 1.25 +3 -0 ports/games/secretmaryochronicles/Makefile > 1.15 +3 -0 ports/games/sfbol/Makefile > 1.101 +3 -0 ports/games/wesnoth-devel/Makefile > 1.20 +3 -0 ports/games/xchadance/Makefile > 1.14 +3 -0 ports/graphics/autopano-sift/Makefile > 1.30 +3 -0 ports/graphics/linux-ac3d/Makefile > 1.9 +3 -0 ports/graphics/long-exposure-tools/Makefile > 1.18 +3 -0 ports/graphics/solang/Makefile > 1.7 +3 -0 ports/lang/boo/Makefile > 1.35 +3 -0 ports/mail/lmtpd/Makefile > 1.107 +3 -0 ports/math/octave-devel/Makefile > 1.5 +3 -0 ports/math/petsc-mpich/Makefile > 1.38 +3 -0 ports/math/petsc/Makefile > 1.13 +3 -0 ports/math/scilab-toolbox-sivp/Makefile > 1.13 +3 -0 ports/misc/airoflash/Makefile > 1.29 +3 -0 ports/misc/kde3-i18n-hsb/Makefile > 1.60 +3 -0 ports/misc/kde3-i18n-mt/Makefile > 1.38 +3 -0 ports/misc/kde3-i18n-nso/Makefile > 1.27 +3 -0 ports/multimedia/moonlight/Makefile > 1.11 +3 -0 ports/multimedia/p5-Video-Info/Makefile > 1.16 +3 -0 ports/multimedia/xfmedia-remote-plugin/Makefile > 1.11 +3 -0 ports/net-im/pino/Makefile > 1.91 +3 -0 ports/net-p2p/gnunet/Makefile > 1.6 +3 -0 ports/net-p2p/py-bittorrent-core/Makefile > 1.66 +3 -0 ports/net-p2p/py-bittorrent/Makefile > 1.19 +3 -0 ports/net/perldap/Makefile > 1.5 +3 -0 ports/net/spnetkit/Makefile > 1.44 +3 -0 ports/palm/coldsync/Makefile > 1.20 +3 -0 ports/print/cups-magicolor/Makefile > 1.50 +3 -0 ports/science/hdf/Makefile > 1.7 +3 -0 ports/security/pantera/Makefile > 1.6 +3 -0 ports/sysutils/linux-megamgr/Makefile > 1.22 +3 -0 ports/sysutils/thunar-volman-plugin/Makefile > 1.84 +3 -0 ports/www/kazehakase/Makefile > 1.7 +3 -0 ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-rdc/Makefile > 1.38 +3 -0 ports/x11-themes/gtk-qt-engine/Makefile > 1.5 +3 -0 ports/x11-themes/kde-icons-amaranth-althaea/Makefile > 1.3 +3 -0 ports/x11-themes/kde-icons-amaranth/Makefile > 1.7 +3 -0 ports/x11-themes/kde-icons-krystaline/Makefile > 1.3 +3 -0 ports/x11-themes/kde-icons-realistic/Makefile > 1.3 +3 -0 ports/x11-toolkits/xforms-i18n/Makefile > 1.3 +3 -0 ports/x11/avant-window-navigator-xfce4/Makefile > 1.6 +3 -0 ports/x11/cl-clx-sbcl/Makefile > 1.40 +3 -0 ports/x11/x3270/Makefile -- Pietro Cerutti The FreeBSD Project g...@freebsd.org PGP Public Key: http://gahr.ch/pgp
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