*-graveyard ports retired

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Tue Oct 1 19:57:48 UTC 2019


On 2019-10-1 21:27 , Renee Otten wrote:
> If the conclusion is that replacements from, for example,
> py34-<something> to py35-<something> are not useful (as it appears from
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/59051) then this change seems fine to
> me. In that case we should recommend maintainers (likely in the guide or
> on the mailinglist) to just remove the value from “python.versions” when
> they want to remove a subport and be done with it.
> 
> If, on the other hand, the idea is that now every port needs to add the
> replacement rules in its own Portfile (as you did in the commit, but
> that might just be to retain the status quo), then I am not so sure
> about the removal of the py-graveyard port. I feel that would add
> unnecessary clutter to the Portfiles and we are likely better off
> keeping it centralized as it was before.

I personally don't think that using replaced_by in this way is useful,
so yes I just kept the existing ones so as little as possible changed.

Having replacements in the individual portfiles does solve the long
indexing time problem if maintainers choose to use them.

- Josh


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