Re: Proposed ports deprecation and removal policy
- Reply: Jason E. Hale: "Re: Proposed ports deprecation and removal policy"
- In reply to: Florian Smeets : "Proposed ports deprecation and removal policy"
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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 19:31:33 UTC
On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 2:22 PM Florian Smeets <flo@freebsd.org> wrote: > - The port does not adapt to infrastructure changes (i.e. USE_STAGE, > MANPREFIX, compiler updates, etc.) within 6 months. Ports should be set > to DEPRECATED after 3 months and can be removed after 6 Does this include special cases such as the following comment in devel/aegis/Makefile (which I am the maintainer of and since the upstream is "dead" it was a single person who died in 2012)? # XXX Manpages are installed into ${DATADIR} too -- there's no easy way to # stop this because we don't have Makefile.am provided. Maintainer will # sort this with upstream. Note I have updated everything to be built with the latest llvm and stuff.