Re: Disappearing programs: Is FreeBSD ports unmaintained?

2014-05-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
Big Lebowski spankthes...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Joerg, The only problem is that if such port is unmaintained (its maintainer email address is po...@freebsd.org) there's no one who could do such thing, because commiters are busy working on the entire ports tree, and apparently no one from

Disappearing programs: Is FreeBSD ports unmaintained?

2014-05-21 Thread Joerg Schilling
Hi, the programs star and smake seem to have disappeared from the FreeBSD ports collection. The supposed reason is: no longer compiles but it seems that the real reason is that somebody did modify the build system in a way that harms portability and this way caused a FreeBSD change