On 2019-10-1 06:44 , Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 at 22:36, Joshua Root wrote:
>>
>> The p5-graveyard and py-graveyard ports have been removed as they no
>> longer serve a useful purpose. The buildbot skips replaced ports
>> automatically and thus doesn't generate the error reports that motivated
>> the creation of the graveyards.
> 
> Why did you want error reports?
> I thought the idea was to collect obsolete ports at a single place, so
> that they would automatically get uninstalled.

The motivation was entirely that maintainers were getting failure
messages from the buildbot about their obsolete subports every time they
updated their portfile. It said as much in the long_descriptions.

- Josh

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