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From:
"Anthony J. Bentley" <bentley@openbsd.org>
Subject:
Re: REMOVE games/prboom-plus
To:
ports@openbsd.org
Date:
Sun, 11 Oct 2026 04:39:45 -0600

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Lucas de Sena writes:
> - prboom+ is not maintained/developed anymore.
> - the last, final maintenance version, 2.6.66, is the last and final.
> - our port is and old version, 2.5.1.4, before development moved to github.
> - dsda-doom is its "spiritual successor", as announced upstream.
> Our options are:
> 1. Remove games/prboom-plus, make it install games/dsda-doom instead
>    (that's what debian did).
> 2. Update games/prboom-plus to final v2.6.66; never touch it again.
> 3. Port PrBoomX, yet another fork of PrBoom+; keep three comfusingly
>    homonymous ports: games/prboom{,-plus,x}, two of which ceased
>    development.
>
> What should we do?

2 only makes sense if prboom-plus provides something the other Doom
ports don't. Does it? If not, my inclination is to delete prboom-plus,
delete prboom (unless it too provides something unique), keep dsda-doom,
and maybe port prboomx.