Re: git: 46b4854f7068 - main - science/paraview: remove LAS support

From: Thierry Thomas <thierry_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 19:16:08 UTC
Le mar. 13 févr. 24 à  4:47:07 +0100, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
 écrivait :
> On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 04:03:20PM +0000, Thierry Thomas wrote:
> > commit 46b4854f7068098ea9498e97604a6d724656fa95
> > 
> >   science/paraview: remove LAS support
> > 
> >   Even though libLAS is still functional, it is scheduled to be removed.
> 
> If it's functional, then why remove it?  Deprecation notice says that
> upstream no longer continuing but the latest commit on their GitHub repo
> was last month.

Agreed!

I’d like portmgr to write a policy about ports deprecation / removal.

The case of devel/liblas is a very good example:
- no known vulnerability;
- upstream still exists and the tarball is fetchable;
- it is used as a dependency by other ports.

They even marked ParaView, an important port, to be removed just because
it used libLAS as a dependency: this is not acceptable!
-- 
Th. Thomas.