Bug 237413

Summary: Deprecate x11/xsel in favor of xsel-conrad
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: Tobias Kortkamp <tobik>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: Tobias Kortkamp <tobik>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me CC: portmaster
Priority: --- Flags: tobik: maintainer-feedback-
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
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xsel.diff tobik: maintainer-approval? (portmaster)

Description Tobias Kortkamp freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2019-04-20 11:57:15 UTC 
Created attachment 203824 [details]
xsel.diff

Most Linux distributions provide a xsel package which we package
as xsel-conrad [1].  The different package name between systems.
is a big POLA violation.  xsel-conrad has a lot more features, is
more popular, and kind of expected to _be_ xsel at this point in time.

I propose that we either deprecate and remove this port in favor
of xsel-conrad which we can then rename to xsel.

Or rename this port to x11/xsel-legacy to avoid future confusion.

[1] https://repology.org/project/xsel/versions
Comment 1 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2019-05-04 09:21:57 UTC 
A commit references this bug:

Author: tobik
Date: Sat May  4 09:20:55 UTC 2019
New revision: 500797
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/500797

Log:
  Deprecate x11/xsel

  Most Linux distributions, OpenBSD, and pkgsrc provide a xsel package
  which we confusingly package as xsel-conrad, while providing an
  incompatible xsel package.  x11/xsel-conrad has a lot more features
  than x11/xsel, is more popular, and is what is expected to be xsel
  at this point in time.

  PR:		237413
  Approved by:	portmaster@bsdforge.com (maintainer timeout, 2 weeks)

Changes:
  head/x11/xsel/Makefile
Comment 2 Tobias Kortkamp freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2019-05-08 19:35:13 UTC 
Port removed in ports r501041.