Re: git: 4a384fbfb20b - main - accessibility/redshift: Deprecate and set expiration date to 2024-06-30

On Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 9:01 PM Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 07:07:53PM +0000, Daniel Engberg wrote:
> > commit 4a384fbfb20b4d684f86aa3af1f898abf809ed49
> >
> > accessibility/redshift: Deprecate and set expiration date to 2024-06-30
> >
> > No upstream activity for the past 4 years, a lot of bug reports upstream
>
> Could you please stop arbitrarily deprecating working software?
> Lots of us use redshift as their daily driver because of its
> flexibility and don't really care what happens upstream or whether
> it supports something as useless as Wayland.

I do not use this software but that is beside the point and I agree in
principle that there seems to be an overeagerness in deprecating ports
recently.  If the software is building, and is not retarding progress
elsewhere, there should be no impetus to go hunting for ports even if
they seem less useful than alternatives.  If there is some other
technical concern driving this like disk space or build time please
communicate that to ports-developers so it can be debated against
other options.

> > Redirect users to accessibility/sct
>
> Simplistic program which doesn't even parse command line to give one
> usage information, and "last commit 5 years ago" doesn't bother you
> in this case for some reason.  Surely there won't be lots of bug reports
> because there ain't much no features.
>
> Lewis, could you chime in and restore the previous status quo?
>
> ./danfe