svn commit: r352089 - head/print/detex

[John Marino]

On 4/25/2014 10:30, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 10:07:55AM +0200, John Marino wrote:
>> By the way, you didn't address the stated reason it was deprecated: It
>> has no maintainer and hasn't had one in 12 years.  (still true)
> 
> Which is rather bogus (at very least, arguable) reason to deprecate a port
> in the first place (provided that it is otherwise fine and non-broken).

Yes, I know you do and that at least a few others share that opinion.

Part of the fallacy of "why delete a working port" is ignoring the fact
the port is only working because others have been maintaining the port
for years (more than a decade).  This is easily verified by looking at
freshports and seeing numerous commits well after the port maintainer
threw it back on the heap.

So to imply that it's no effort to it (look, it builds!) ignores all the
collective effort that's already been spent on it.  And frankly nobody
can claim that it's been maintained and works correctly and has no
vulnerabilities / all options make sense / etc -- only that it builds.
Hell, who knows if the port even has any users anymore?  nobody is
looking at these aspects.

So I am on the other side.  It's fine to have collective maintenance for
a reasonable amount of time until the port can be adopted again.  For
me, that reasonable time does not extend more than a decade.

John