Re: Proposed ports deprecation and removal policy

Le mer. 28 févr. 24 à 20:22:34 +0100, Florian Smeets <flo@FreeBSD.org>
 écrivait :

> Dear ports community,

Hello,

> as the removal of ports is a recurring source of friction and dispute we
> would like to add a ports removal and deprecation policy to the porters
> handbook.

Thanks for working on this subject!

I’d  like to add a few common-sense rules for deprecators:

1) Firstly, contact the maintainer, even when this is ports@FreeBSD.org.

2) Check for an entry at repology (<https://repology.org/projects/>):
   if it is packaged by several distributions, that means that this port
   is still relevant => Stop!

3) Check for a possible entry in bugzilla and/or phabricator:
   if found, complete it, ans stop for the moment.

3) Make a quick search for a possible relocation of WWW or the distfile:
   if you find one, send a PR (or fix it yourself).

4) Check if the port is used as a dependency: if True, iterate to 1).

Best regards.
-- 
Th. Thomas.