*-graveyard ports retired

Mojca Miklavec mojca at macports.org
Mon Sep 30 20:44:39 UTC 2019


On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 at 22:36, Joshua Root wrote:
>
> The p5-graveyard and py-graveyard ports have been removed as they no
> longer serve a useful purpose. The buildbot skips replaced ports
> automatically and thus doesn't generate the error reports that motivated
> the creation of the graveyards.

Why did you want error reports?
I thought the idea was to collect obsolete ports at a single place, so
that they would automatically get uninstalled.

> If you believe that setting replacements is useful for the users of your
> module port, you can do so in the individual portfile. Existing
> replacements have been moved to their portfiles of origin.

It would be nice to add better support to the two respective
portgroups, so that one could easily add obsolete ports with a simple
one-liner.

Mojca


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