Do remember that BROKEN
and
FORBIDDEN
are to be used as a
temporary resort if a port is not working. Permanently
broken ports should be removed from the tree
entirely.
When it makes sense to do so, users can be warned about
a pending port removal with DEPRECATED
and EXPIRATION_DATE
. The former is
simply a string stating why the port is scheduled for removal;
the latter is a string in ISO 8601 format (YYYY-MM-DD). Both
will be shown to the user.
It is possible to set DEPRECATED
without an EXPIRATION_DATE
(for
instance, recommending a newer version of the port), but
the converse does not make any sense.
There is no set policy on how much notice to give. Current practice seems to be one month for security-related issues and two months for build issues. This also gives any interested committers a little time to fix the problems.
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