Re: Disappearing packages from wip : what is the policy

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost> writes:

> One example of a wip package that has been deleted is freecad,
>
> This seems to have been done as part of a bulk cleanup:
>
>     "remove packages with outdated distinfo files"
>
> The freecad package has sources on github so could have been updated
> to pass the distinfo check, it also has a listed maintainer.

git log shows

commit 27326db8fb273e583c63d47d9ac8b2f2c6e8052d
Author: Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost>
Date:   Sat Sep 14 20:09:47 2024 +0100

    remove packages with outdated distinfo files
    
    The hash algorithm RMD160 has not been in use for several years now,
    so every package that still uses it is suspicious of being unmaintained
    and having no working MASTER_SITES, as otherwise it would have been
    possible to update the distinfo file by running "bmake distinfo".
    
    grep -l ^RMD160 */distinfo | sed s,/distinfo,, > obsolete
    git rm -r $(cat obsolete)
    pkglint -F