Hey, So I came across this recent mail in mailing list[1] stating the PR for deletion of PHP PEAR ports. I went through a few of the ports and it seems that once the update functionality of UPT is completed the updation of these ports could be easily automated just by adding a PEAR frontend to upt which won't take much time. If PEAR ports are useful to the community then I would like to take this as stretch goals / after GSoC goal.
Thanks, Karan Sheth [1] https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2019-May/040664.html -- <https://www.somaiya.edu> <http://www.somaiya-ayurvihar.org> <http://nareshwadi.org> <http://somaiya.com> <http://www.helpachild.in> <http://nareshwadi.org>