Re: remove dead ports?

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> On tor, 2012-05-03 at 17:39 +0100, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
>> On 3 May 2012 17:21, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>> > I think I was the only user left;  I have never heard from a BSD/OS user
>> > in the past 5-7 years.
>>
>> I'm inclined to agree with Bruce. While it's not reasonable to assume
>> that the lack of a BSD/OS user complaining on -general indicates that
>> there are none, it's also not reasonable for them to expect us to
>> support their operating system for 8 years after the original
>> proprietary vendor. Better to not support BSD/OS than to supply a port
>> that no one really has any confidence in. It's not as if we've ceased
>> support in release branches.
>
> I'm not so much opposed to removing the port.  I am more concerned about
> the manner in which it was done.  The other ports I removed were known
> to not work anyway, for years, and there were at least several days of
> discussion.  The bsdi case was removing a working port with less than 24
> hours notice.

There is enough time until 9.2-final for a BSD/OS user raise complaints.

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marko