Re: discussion on future removal of empty $FreeBSD$ tags

On Mon, May 2, 2022, 4:37 PM Pau Amma <pauamma@gundo.com> wrote:

> On 2022-05-02 20:09, Warner Losh wrote:
> > The current plans are to keep $FreeBSD$ in main until stable/12 is out
> > of
> > support. no new files will have it added, unless they are to be merged
> > to
> > stable/12 and are installed / managed by mergemaster.
> >
> > We'll do a coordinated sweep of the tree removing them after stable/12
> > drops out of support and we'll do similar commits to stable/13 to
> > reduce as
> > much as possible any merge conflicts after that point.
>
> Tangentially, what about things that used to be part of base but were
> later spun off into ports? https://github.com/freebsd/calendar-data is
> an example: there may be others. Do these need the $FreeBSD$ tag removed
> as well, and when if so?
>

There is no reason to keep them at all. They can be removed any time as can
tags in ports or docs.

Warner

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