[MacPorts] #64142: New Port - ntpstat

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#64142: New Port - ntpstat
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  Reporter:  RobK88      |      Owner:  (none)
      Type:  submission  |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal      |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports       |    Version:  2.7.1
Resolution:              |   Keywords:
      Port:  ntpstat     |
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Comment (by ryandesign):

 The `version` you've selected in the file... "20010622"... are you basing
 that on the date at the top of the manpage and the comment at the top of
 the source file?

 The project was committed to GitHub in 2013, by someone other than the
 author listed in the source file, and the repository has only one commit
 of the source and one commit of a binary that we don't want, which makes
 me think this is not the original or official source of this software.

 It looks like this is the last archived copy of the official homepage:
 https://web.archive.org/web/20121207230716/http://people.redhat.com/rkeech/#ntpstat

 That page links to a source code archive called ntpstat-0.2-1.src.rpm so I
 think that means we should set `version` to "0.2".

 We may want to try to contact the developer at the listed email address or
 do additional internet searches to try to discover if there is a new home
 for this software from which we could get it.

 If we were to download the source code from GitHub, then we'd want to use
 the github 1.0 portgroup to simplify the Portfile. However, since that's
 not the original source, I'd be inclined to use a more official source if
 available. If no new home is available we could try to use the above
 source rpm but I'm not sure if MacPorts knows how to decompress an rpm
 file.

 And if we were to download from GitHub, then it's not permitted to
 download the head of "master" or another branch of a repository in a
 Portfile. Instead, you must select a specific tag or commit, so that
 [wiki:ReproducibleBuilds builds are reproducible]. For example, we might
 select the initial commit, since that will be a smaller archive since it
 won't contain the binary we don't need.

 In your patchfile which comments out the line `#include <error.h>`, it
 would be simpler and more efficient for the patchfile to ''remove'' that
 line.

 I wouldn't bother including the entire GPL license file in the files
 directory. It is several times the size of the Portfile and patches. If
 every port did that, it would be an incredible waste of space. The
 software already includes a COPYING file which, while it doesn't have the
 entire license text, does say what license it is, and installing that
 should be sufficient.

 I am assuming in all of this that there is some value in adding this 20
 +-year-old program to MacPorts at this point that is not already met by
 one of our other ports.

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