Re: Disappearing programs: Is FreeBSD ports unmaintained?

2014-05-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
Big Lebowski 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 maintainers was int

Re: Disappearing programs: Is FreeBSD ports unmaintained?

2014-05-21 Thread Big Lebowski
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 maintainers was interested in the port to do so. If

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 (intro