Re: Future of (upstream unmaintained) sysutils/autopsy port

On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 07:15:14PM -0700, Eitan Adler wrote:
> On 2 July 2014 17:39, Dylan Leigh <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > Is there any policy on keeping ports where upstream is not
> > maintained and the software itself is depreciated (except to
> > open and export old files)? Do we still want to keep such a port
> > in the active tree?
> 
> It is fine to maintain unchanged upstream ports provided they have an
> active downstream maintainer.  The only concern is patches:  the ports
> tree must not become a repo by which the upstream port is continued to
> be developed. If you just want to make sure that the port remains
> "available" this is perfectly fine.

Thanks for the advice, I've filed #191778 to take maintainership and
fix the problems with the port.

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=191778

-- Dylan

-- 
Dylan Leigh // VU# s4081906 // www.dylanleigh.net

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