[Bug 191750] archivers/xz -> 5.0.5, MAINTAINERSHIP, MIRROR

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=191750

jharris at widomaker.com changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|Issue Resolved              |In Discussion
         Resolution|Overcome By Events          |---

--- Comment #2 from jharris at widomaker.com ---
1.  Actually, I had to dig archivers/xz out of svn BECAUSE my ports tree is up
to date, but...

2.  My still-supported/non-EoL/fully-patched base system has:

  %/usr/bin/xz --version
  xz (XZ Utils) 5.0.4
  liblzma 5.0.4

3.  And xz 5.0.5 was released on 2013-06-30, so the port (xz 5.0.4) was 6
months behind and should have been updated in 2014-01 rather than being
deleted.

4.  And we have other ports that peacefully coexist with their base
counterparts:

  a.  archivers/gzip
  b.  archivers/bzip2
  c.  ports-mgmt/pkg, pkg-devel
  d.  net/ntp, ntp-devel, ntp-rc
  e.  textproc/diffutils
  f.  textproc/flex
  g.  sysutils/file
  h.  plenty more to be found at http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/contrib/

5.  And many of these ports are a necessity BECAUSE they're ahead of their base
counterparts, e.g., file-5.11 -> file-5.19, again in my
still-supported/non-EoL/fully-patched base system.

6.  And 11-CURRENT isn't a RELEASE, according to:

  http://www.freebsd.org/releases/

  So, you're telling me that NOBODY running a FreeBSD RELEASE at this time can
have xz 5.0.5?!  Really?  Excellent merit^D^D^D^D^D^Dbureaucracy...

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