Deleting ports: bittorent, py-dsv & spe

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Aug 27, 2013, at 9:17 AM, Clemens Lang wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 06:00:10PM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>> And I still believe that it would be nice to have a special PortGroup
>> that would ask the users to report if they use a particular software,
>> and if there was no such report in more than a year, everyone would be
>> sure that deleting the port is safe.
> 
> I've been thinking about adding a note to ports that have no maintainer
> when installing them; something along the lines of
>  This port is unmaintained. Please consider becoming a maintainer. See
>  https://trac.macports.org/wiki/SomePageWithMoreInfo for details.
> 
> That being said, to answer your immediate question there's also the
> statistics branch lying around that we could work on and get merged. It
> seems to me there's only a few things to be done before a merge. I
> already have the server-side setup and (coincidentially) did set up
> automatic updates of the server's port list today.


Would PortfileRecipes [1] be a good place to document deleting ports?

There are a couple ports I would like to delete that have never worked. Is removing them from the svn tree with comments enough or should the port be obsoleted for a period of time?

Could we use replaced-by [2] with an empty value?


Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)

[1] http://trac.macports.org/wiki/PortfileRecipes
[2] http://trac.macports.org/wiki/PortfileRecipes#replaced-by