Re: Proposed ports deprecation and removal policy

Florian Smeets <flo@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> 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")

Strong disagree, give the maintainer a chance to find an alternate
mirror or self-host.

> - Upstream WWW is unavailable: deprecate, remove after 3 months

That's the opposite of immediate removal

> - BROKEN for more than 6 months

Agree but that's hardly immediate

> - has known vulnerabilities that weren’t addressed in the ports tree
>   for more than 3 months

Agree but that's hardly immediate

DES
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