Bug 254251

Summary: archivers/bzip2: remove as this is part of base system since FreeBSD 4.4
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: Xin LI <delphij>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: Xin LI <delphij>
Status: In Progress ---    
Severity: Affects Only Me CC: emaste, jharris, secteam, swills
Priority: --- Flags: jharris: maintainer-feedback-
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Xin LI freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-03-13 07:59:23 UTC 
bzip2 became part of FreeBSD base system since 4.4-RELEASE (September 2001), almost 20 years ago, and there is no other ports depending on archivers/bzip2.

The port system expects /usr/bin/bzip2 and expects base system tar to recognize it; bzip2 1.0.7 introduced a quite visible regression with decompression, and the port wasn't updated for 2 years, so I believe there is no real users of it and the port should be removed.
Comment 1 Xin LI freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-03-13 08:00:12 UTC 
Requesting maintainer approval.
Comment 2 jharris 2021-03-13 16:20:21 UTC 
Denied, for exactly the same reasons I’ve stated in the past, for this very port/package.
Comment 3 Ed Maste freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-03-15 00:27:08 UTC 
Would you kindly add a link to previous PRs / mailing list discussions?