Re: Why do packages disappear?

In reply to: Richard Childers : "Why do packages disappear?"
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From: Gleb Popov <arrowd_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 16:20:29 UTC

On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 6:39 PM Richard Childers
<childers@redwoodhodling.com> wrote:
>
>
> I was using ungoogled-chromium and I had 60+ tabs that I can now not get
> back because ungoogled-chromium has been withdrawn from circulation.
>
>
> why are these packages appearing and disappearing? If it's a package,
> it's supposed to be good enough to public use. The experimental stuff is
> supposed to stay in the ports section, not be promoted to packages.
>
>
> FreeBSD used to hold itself to a higher standard than Linux; it stood
> for STABILITY. Linux stood for EXPERIMENTATION.
>
>
> What happened? Is FreeBSD being run by college kids now?

Is it? How did you end up with ungoogled-chromium removed?

Back on topic, the missing package may be due some build failure on
the package cluster. You can investigate that on
https://portsfallout.com/