dmgbuild ports disappeared

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 20, 2019, at 05:42, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

> Hi, I’m using MacPorts for many years, but I’m new on this list.
> 
> A few days ago I was building SCM Workbench[1] on MacPorts Python 3.7 (because the binary package was expecting python.org Frameworks to be installed). The project uses dmgbuild[2], and there were ports for all(?) versions of Python.
> 
> py37-dmgbuild didn’t work, because the port used an old state of dmgbuild that was Py2 only, but py27-dmgbuild did the job.
> 
> Today I wanted to document the process – and the ports were gone!
> 
> I looked for "dmgbuild" in all mailing list, tracker and github commit messages and found only:
> 
> * https://trac.macports.org/attachment/ticket/56662/main.log (dmgbuild used as an external tool)
> * https://trac.macports.org/attachment/ticket/59137/vlc_build_log_clang8.log (dmgbuild not found)
> 
> (I used Google with "site:" as well as site searches.)
> 
> Does anyone know why these ports were removed (instead of updated maybe) or how I could find out more?
> 
> Best regards, Hraban
> 
> [1] https://github.com/barry-scott/scm-workbench
> [2] https://github.com/al45tair/dmgbuild

I also can't find any trace of a py-dmgbuild in MacPorts. Are you sure it existed? If you had a py-dmgbuild portfile, is it possible you wrote it yourself, or downloaded it from some place other than MacPorts?