On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 at 15:03, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate via
macports-dev wrote:
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> Perry, you said "remove". I would like to have obsolete ports moved to an
> inactive permanent reference archive, preferably somewhere in the ports code
> base, rather than permanently removed. This would m
Hi,
I thus restored JRuby in 2021 (two years later), which was deleted in 2019. The
remote Portfile came in handy for me since I copied the trick for the j prefix
from there.
I'm not sure if the port was being built correctly in 2019. But it would be
helpful if the ports weren't removed just b
On Fri, 19 Nov 2021, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
Howdy! As things stand, we don't explicitly say much in our rules about
whether people can remove obsolete ports after a year even without a port
maintainer's say-so. We also have circumstances where people leave
"maintainer" lines in ports that h
Perry, you said "remove". I would like to have obsolete ports moved to an
inactive permanent reference archive, preferably somewhere in the ports
code base, rather than permanently removed. This would mainly be for
possible resurrection at any time in the future.
I think your proposed rules are
Howdy! As things stand, we don't explicitly say much in our rules about
whether people can remove obsolete ports after a year even without a
port maintainer's say-so. We also have circumstances where people leave
"maintainer" lines in ports that have been put into `obsolete`.
I'd like to propo
