svn commit: r509446 - in head: . databases databases/palm-db-tools palm palm/palm-db-tools

[Mathieu Arnold]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 01:45:29PM -0700, jgh wrote:
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>  ---- On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 13:17:51 -0700 Mathieu Arnold <mat at FreeBSD.org> wrote ----
>  > On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 12:25:01PM -0700, jgh wrote:
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>  > >  ---- On Tue, 20 Aug 2019 12:22:28 -0700 Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote ----
>  > >  > On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 07:05:49PM +0000, Jason Helfman wrote:
>  > >  > >   - shift to more applicable category
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>  > >  > I ... guess I don't understand the motivation here.
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>  > >  > I don't think I've touched any of my PalmPilot gear in 10+ years.
>  > >  > They're all in a box ... somewhere.  AFAIK it's a dead platform.
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>  > >  > Why don't we just deprecate and remove these ports?
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>  > >  > mcl
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>  > > I saw thirteen in the category. I wanted to move the ones that were ports@ owned to different categories. I am mailing the owners of the others regarding shifting their categories, and will also ask them about deprecating the ports, as well, if they see that as valuable.
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>  > So, would you mind answering the "why" question ?
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>  > -- 
>  > Mathieu Arnold
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> We should and I've started deprecating the ports where maintainer was not ports at . I plan on adding deprecations to the others, but first wanted to move what I could.

But why? Are they broken? Do they pose some kind of threat?


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Mathieu Arnold
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