svn commit: r389117 - head/databases/db48

[Kubilay Kocak]

On 11/06/2015 5:39 AM, John Marino wrote:
> On 6/10/2015 15:09, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
>> +--On 10 juin 2015 20:29:54 +0200 John Marino <freebsd.contact at marino.st>
>> | As a ramification, can you set DEPRECATED and EXPIRATION_DATE=2015-07-31
>> | for all the bitcoin-related ports that refuse to transition off of db48?
>> |  This port expiration has been extended several times, so why would
>> | these bitcoin ports feel the need to change?  The maintainers know it
>> | will just get extended again.
>>
>> Bitcoin is engaged into converting from db48, yes, it'll take them years
>> (as in, many, I was about to write "a decade") to be confortable enough to
>> remove db48 support, so, can we drop this discussion now, or are we going
>> to revisit it every couple of months for the upcoming years ?
>>
> 
> Yes, if db48 remove is extended every 2 months then I think it will
> probably get revisited every time it happens.
> 
> There's really two logical choices:
> 
> 1) remove the deprecation of db48 and commit to keeping it indefinitely
> 2) remove the bitcoin ports in two months.
> 
> something like this taking "years" is pretty scary.  It shouldn't be
> that hard.  I'll defer to your knowledge and accept that it is.
> 
> John
> 

+1 on removing expiration and -1 on deleting *coin ports.

./koobs