From nobody Wed Feb 28 21:38:19 2024 X-Original-To: ports@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4TlSQW2k5Cz5CStp for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2024 21:38:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from portmaster@bsdforge.com) Received: from udns.ultimatedns.net (udns.ultimatedns.net [24.113.41.81]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "ultimatedns.net", Issuer "R3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4TlSQW0Zddz4gTm; Wed, 28 Feb 2024 21:38:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from portmaster@bsdforge.com) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none Received: from ultimatedns.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by udns.ultimatedns.net (8.16.1/8.16.1) with ESMTP id 41SLcJkd004405; Wed, 28 Feb 2024 13:38:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from portmaster@bsdforge.com) List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-ports List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 13:38:19 -0800 From: Chris To: Florian Smeets Cc: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposed ports deprecation and removal policy In-Reply-To: <1500d4f4-2bdb-4d3b-8848-900346f4d194@FreeBSD.org> References: <435edf7c-a956-4317-b327-3372de70dbef@FreeBSD.org> <1500d4f4-2bdb-4d3b-8848-900346f4d194@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: UDNSMS/17.0 Message-ID: <7d2a8e8e671578f99ed05431b68cf015@bsdforge.com> X-Sender: portmaster@bsdforge.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spamd-Bar: ---- X-Rspamd-Pre-Result: action=no action; module=replies; Message is reply to one we originated X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:11404, ipnet:24.113.0.0/16, country:US] X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4TlSQW0Zddz4gTm On 2024-02-28 12:13, Florian Smeets wrote: > On 28.02.24 21:00, Miroslav Lachman wrote: >> On 28/02/2024 20:22, Florian Smeets wrote: >> >>> Ports can be removed immediately if one of the following conditions is >>> met: >>> >>> - Upstream distfile is no longer available from the original source/mirror >>> (Our and other distcaches e.g. Debian, Gentoo, etc do not count as >>> "available") >> >> I miss some sort of time frame like in the following cases. The way the >> sentence is written now, it looks like there may be an immediate removal on >> the first day of the outage. >> > > Good point. Yeah, it certainly isn't the intention to remove it immediately. > I > will make a note to add a time frame. I'm thinking 4 weeks, as that feels > long for > a site to go away and reappear, but we might just make it 3 months as with > most of > the other points. I'd vote for 3 (mos). But 2 also seems reasonable. So that those that use it. But don't update frequently get a chance to notice, and subsequently save/maintain it. :) > > Thanks > Florian -- --Chris Hutchinson