On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 01:58:05PM +0100, Alex Dupre wrote: > Doug Barton wrote: > >I admire your ambition, but there are still hundreds of ports that > >depend on libungif. They need to be changed to giflib before libungif > >can be deprecated. > > > >This (and the expiration_date) need to be backed out immediately. > > Hmmm, I don't agree with you completely. DEPRECATION seems perfectly > correct to me, the port is set deprecated so users and maintainers know > they should switch to the recommended giflib. We can argue on > EXPIRATION_DATE, I imagine that if it's set someone has patches for all > depending ports and they will be committed before that date.
+1. It should be deprecated. At most, EXPIRATION_DATE could probably be extended a bit to allow every consumer to switch, but no reason to back out this commit completely. We should have one definitive (read: official) GIF provider in the Tree. ./danfe _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
