Re: Removing obsolete packages

[Thomas Klausner <thomasklausner%users.sourceforge.net@localhost>]

On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 08:34:42PM +0200, Krister Walfridsson wrote:
> pkgsrc-wip contains IMHO far too many obsolete packages which
> makes it hard to find the useful stuff (and cause extra work when
> all packages need to be updated because of infrastructure changes).
> 
> In particular, there were 143 failures in my latest pkgsrc-wip
> bulk build that failed because the distfiles could not be fetched.
> I find it unlikely that anyone will miss those packages (since they
> cannot be used without the distfile anyway) so I'd like to remove
> them...  There is however no need to hurry, so I propose to wait
> for three months before removing them, to let people who care about
> those have plenty of time to find alternative locations for the
> distfiles.
> 
> I have attached a list of the failing packages.  I propose to remove
> the packages that still can not fetch their distfiles at November 15.

Could we mark the packages in some way so that it is clear that
this package will be removed, something like the BROKEN_IN
stuff in pkgsrc?
 Thomas

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