Re: Where do packages go when they die?

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On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 09:01:59AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
>   what is the general policy for old (as in: smelly) packages in pkgsrc-wip?
> 
>   I am thinking about "cvs remove"ing wip/l2tpd, since the upstream project
>   is dead, and I haven't used the package for something like five years.
>   OTOH, it might be useful for _somebody_, you never know... wip is different
>   from mainstream pkgsrc in that way.


When i imported wip/nomadio, i knew it was not being maintained anymore.
However, it was the only open source solution i found at the time that was able
to access my Nomad II. I wouldn't want to see it removed from wip.

 
> I don't think we have a policy.  I would propose that for packages w/o
> maintainers, we add a comment next to the maintainer that the package is
> planned for removal in three or six months.  People can object by
> becoming the maintainer, or explaining why it should stay.  Packages w/o
> maintainers and are past their remove-by date can be rm'd without
> further discussion.
> 
> as in
> 
> MAINTAINER=   pkgsrc-wip-discuss%lists.sourceforge.net@localhost
> # Remove on 2009-08-09


If one of the packages in wip that i've been "maintaining" was marked as such, i
doubt i'd see that unless i had a specific reason to hack on the Makefile.

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