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= [email protected]
> # 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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