cvs commit: ports/mail/procmail Makefile

[Julian H. Stacey]

Matthias Andree wrote:
> Am 30.08.2011 10:23, schrieb Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh:
> > sunpoet     2011-08-30 08:23:18 UTC
> > 
> >   FreeBSD ports repository
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     mail/procmail        Makefile 
> >   Log:
> >   - Take maintainership
> >   
> >   Revision  Changes    Path
> >   1.60      +1 -1      ports/mail/procmail/Makefile
> 
> I was just about to grab the port, deprecate and set two months
> expiration date.

Sorry No, it would be most irresponsible to consider a timeout of
2 months !  Procmail has been compiling regularly, working fine &
vitaly necessary here for a decade.  If one were considering to
toss out such a vital tool, one should give a warning of a release or 2. (*)


> Now that you're maintaining it I seek you to please let this
> unmaintained unclean code from our FreeBSD ports world and deprecate it.

Sunpoet please ignore Matthias !  Take your time.


> The code is unmaintainable, hasn't seen maintenance in a decade,
> is hard to use properly because of its fall-through "error handling"
> (actually nonhandling) behaviour,

It's not hard to use, Read the manual & learn. Examples
	http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/dots/.procmailrc
	http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/dots/.procmailrc.lists
	more in:
	http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/dots/


> and should finally disappear.

No

> Please add
> 
> DEPRECATED=		use mail/maildrop instead

No,

> EXPIRATION_DATE=	2011-10-31

(*)
Irresponsible lack of warning !
Lots of users of releases dont even read ports@
( Reminds me of the Hitch Hikers Guide episode where the vogons
come to destroy the earth, & claim due warning was lodged in Alpha Centauri ;-)

Cheers,
Julian
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