Hi po...@freebsd.org
I'm looking for ports/math/hexcalc or replacement it dissapeared after
8.2-RELEASE, it's not in http://www.freebsd.org/ports/math.html
How should one find:
Why it dissapeared ?
(eg maybe it just lacked a maintainer & I have to re-port it? Or ... ?
What to replace it with ?
A few days ago I tried tracing another port
(demime) & ploughed through loads of svnweb pages, dividing by 2
until I found exactly the revision when demime had been removed,
but even there no hint why removed or what to use instead.
( Eventually I used emil instead of demime. )
After upgrade, recovering abandoned ports is a chore,
What - if any - generalised pointer mechanism, does FreeBSD have
for providing a hint of Why a port was deleted, & what to use instead.
( In CVS days I'd have looked in Attic via web, but though 8.2 was
CVS days, it'd be better to know the new [SVN] way ? )
Cheers,
Julian
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