Time to mark portupgrade deprecated?
Stanislav Sedov
stas at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jul 25 20:59:20 UTC 2011
> Why pick portupgrade when a lot of people (including myself) use it? There are
> probably 100's of ports more worthy of deprecation. Maybe there should be a
> policy to deprecate all unmaintained ports if nobody steps up. You can always
> drag it out of the attic if enough people squak and probably find someone to
> maintain it in the process.
>
Personally, I don't see any reason at all to deprecate it.
It works, it's maintained (by ruby@ and me personally) and it's
generally useful. If someone feels that there's lack of maintainership
here he's always welcome to step in and contribute time/resources.
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