On 23.05.2011 06:42, Matthias Andree wrote:
In your particular case, you as the maintainer remained silent on the
relevant PR although Erwin and I have pointed you to it on March 21st
This is true -- I was silent on the PR. My earlier objection was to my alleged "silence" on ports@
and your ports were broken since the db2 removal in April.
Yes, they were. The person(s) behind that gratuitous removal is/are responsible for the breakage of tcl-neo*
Conclusion: neowebscript is not only unmaintained in ports, but
also unmaintained upstream.
Both were maintained in the ports as much as was needed to ensure successful builds -- until some busybody came along to remove the perfectly functional databases/db2 -- on bogus grounds.
I do concur with Wesley Shields and Eitan Adler that we don't need
unmaintained software in the ports tree
I'm well familiar with this line of reasoning and reject it. As long as the port builds -- and has no known unpatched security holes -- it is "maintained" and should not be removed. All other reasons: "too old", "not used by anybody I know", etc. are subjective and are based of non-existent statistics. Though tcl-neo* themselves stopped building, this was a result of the (gratuitous) removal of db2 -- and whoever was behind that removal, was supposed to fix the fallout, or, better yet, find some other application for their energy.

That a package is discontinued up-stream is not a good reason for removal at all -- not until you remove games/bsdgames and the entire KDE3 (for just some examples)...

That said, I'm not insisting, the ports be resurrected and will not be doing it myself out of spite. I'm no longer using the software, and neither does the client, for whom I originally ported it. But I don't like this drive to remove working ports, in which the energetic removers see no value personally, and restate this position again because, evidently, certain active decision-makers weren't aware of it...

Yours,

   -mi

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