On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 08:36:04PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> Hanging onto the old version shouldn't be expensive (given the
>> assumption that it will rapidly become insecure, same as the old
>> firefox) so... do enough people want it to warrant keeping it around?
>
> Keep in mind that the deletion criteria reads differently from "enough
> people want it to warrant keeping". The cost of having a directory in
> pkgsrc, even with bulk builds, is very low. The normal test is that we
> believe that are essentially zero users, or that there are few users
> compared to some actual pain, and a little bit that we can say to any
> user "we have no idea about your circumstances, or your constraints, but
> even so we can with certainty and in good faith tell you that you are
> doing the wrong thing, and there is essentially zero chance that we are
> wrong in doing so".
>
> I expect firefox52 to remain for quite a while.
It's not a matter of deletion; it's a matter of adding
www/seamonkey249 with a copy of the package before the previous
update.