Q re Unison no longer maintained

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jul 18, 2014, at 2:46 PM, bunk3m wrote:

> Apologies in advance for the stupid question.
> 
> I received notices yesterday that Unison +aqua (#25981/24721/21862) is
> no longer maintained.
> 
> I understood this to mean that this variant of Unison wouldn't be
> updated anymore.
> 
> But I thought perhaps that Unison (the cli utility) would still be OK??? 
> 
> So I thought I'd check the macport site to check in the ports list.  In
> that list I found Unison and all variants listed are "no longer
> maintained".  Do I presume that Unison is gone/done/finished from
> Macports since there is no maintainer? 

It just means that the person who previously agreed to maintain the port no longer wishes to do so. This should be viewed as an opportunity for you or any other interested party to take over the task.

In this case, the message seems to have been in error, in that the port had already been unmaintained for 4 years, ever since r69376. It's just that some tickets for that port were assigned to someone who retired from MacPorts, so the tickets were assigned away from him.