Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/sysutils

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 06:52:53AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > This has already been discussed if I remember properly, and no good solution
> > was proposed.
> > What is in the pkgsrc guide doesn't work.
> 
> pkg-vulnerabilities seems like a good solution for EOL software.

It is, but here we're talking about a package being removed in the near
furture, and migrating to another package. It's not the same thing.

> 
> DESCR is supposd to describe what's in the package.  Especially when
> there are multiple versions of an upstream, it's important for people
> choosing among them to understand what's EOL, what's old, what's
> current, and what's too-new-to-be-stable.
> 
> MESSAGE basicaly doesn't work at all; it scrolls by in bulk operations.

Then bulk operations needs to be reworked. 

> 
> The basic problem is that you are worried about people that are just not
> paying attention at all.  Those people are going to have trouble anyway.
> Xen is complicated, and really anybody running Xen on NetBSD should be
> on port-xen.

No it's not the problem. The problem is that we have no good way to warn
the users that a package they're using will be removed. The problem isn't just
for Xen, it's also true for e.g. php or python (or, basically, anything
wich has multiple packages for multiple versions). But maybe I'm the
only one who cares.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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