On Tue 15 Mar 2011 at 14:59:57 PDT Jason Helfman wrote:
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 02:58:01PM -0700, Charlie Kester thus spake:
I see there's been another few batch commits deprecating some
unmaintained ports where "upstream is gone and/or distfile is no longer
available."
Maintainers and prospective maintainers should be sure to look at the
ports listed in these commits. I don't think much effort was made to
check the availability of the distfiles. Instead, it seems that all
that was done was to try the MASTER_SITES, etc. from the port Makefiles,
and if the fetch failed, onto the list they went.
NOTE: I'm NOT saying the committers' procedure was too lazy or anything
like that. There are a lot of these broken ports in the tree, and
deprecation seems like a reasonable step to take -- especially if the
result is to trigger some action from people who want to see these ports
retained.
I just rescued one of these, sysutils/lookat, that was deprecated a few
days ago. I followed the WWW link in the pkg-descr, found that the
author's website was still up and that the distfile could still be
downloaded -- but the download url had changed. So all the port needed
was a tweak to the MASTER_SITES.
Today I see that the fairly popular graphics/gimpshop has also been
deprecated. Here the WWW link from pkg-descr also fails, but a quick
websearch found the new (?) official website for this app:
http://www.gimpshop.com, where the distfile is available for download.
So here's another one that can be easily rescued.
And I'll bet there are more.
To this point I just found another:
sysutils/idled was just deprecated the other day.
In following some weblinks, I found that doinkd has replaced it:
sysutils/doinkd
:)
Maybe the DEPRECATION line should be altered.
Two more found with a simple web query:
finance/xinvest and finance/xquote are now on sourceforge.
http://xinvest.sourceforge.net/
BTW, I don't use either of these, or gimpshop, so I'm not going to fix
the ports myself. Instead, I'll leave that to anyone who's interested.
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