Bug 272532

Summary: www/pserv: Consider removal
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: Daniel Engberg <diizzy>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: Alex Dupre <ale>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me Flags: ale: maintainer-feedback+
Priority: ---    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Daniel Engberg freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2023-07-16 06:47:35 UTC
Upstream is since long dead and we're pretty much the only distro that keeps this around. Point people to apache, lighttpd or nginx?
Comment 1 Alex Dupre freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2023-07-17 05:43:11 UTC
No objection if you deprecate it, I guess nobody is using it nowadays.
Comment 2 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2023-07-19 18:06:54 UTC
A commit in branch main references this bug:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/ports/commit/?id=01a9f366307de0a21f486b5e3da0b5c83daeb89e

commit 01a9f366307de0a21f486b5e3da0b5c83daeb89e
Author:     Daniel Engberg <diizzy@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2023-07-19 16:50:31 +0000
Commit:     Daniel Engberg <diizzy@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2023-07-19 18:05:40 +0000

    www/pserv: Deprecate and set expiration date to 2023-09-30

    Last release in 2005 and abandoned upstream, consider migrating to www/apache24 , www/lighttpd or www/nginx

    PR:             272532
    Reviewed by:    ale (maintainer)

 www/pserv/Makefile | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
Comment 3 Daniel Engberg freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2023-07-19 18:16:32 UTC
Thanks