From: "Sergey A. Osokin" <osa@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Anyone using the www/nginx passenger subpackage?
To: Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Cc: Jeremy Evans <jeremy@openbsd.org>, OpenBSD ports <ports@openbsd.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 17:44:25 +0000

On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 05:23:58PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
[...]
> 
> We take a slightly different approach in OpenBSD ports compared to
> FreeBSD - if something is adding maintenance burden and isn't actually
> being used, especially if there is a more maintained alternative, we'd
> often prefer to remove it.
> 
> If someone shows up who uses it and wants to help out then perhaps it's
> worth keeping, but otherwise the fact that the port is currently at
> 6.0.18 (June 2023) and doesn't get mentioned on ports@ often suggests
> that it's probably not actively used. (We can always re-add later if a
> maintainer shows up).

Thanks for sharing these details, Stuart.  Appreciate it!

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Sergey A. Osokin