On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 09:00:06AM +0200, Erwin Lansing wrote: > This case is actually actively taken care of, although of course some > cases will fall through the cracks. Portmgr does occassionally run a > full build of all ports on the pointyhat cluster with local caching > turned off, forcing all ports to be fetch from the configured > MASTER_SITES. In fact, I started one just yesterday. Maintainers will > be informed and unmaintained ports will be marked BROKEN, and lateron > scheduled for deletion. But like you said, there will still be cases > that will fall through and we do need to get better at removing stale > ports.
I think people would also appreciate more clear criteria on when to mark port as deprecated. For now the only one I know is "being broken and unmaintained for 6-12 months". Availability of distfile and master site does not seem enough. Unpatched security issue, on contrary, could encourage deprecation with shorter expiration period. ./danfe _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
