From: Umgeher Torgersen <me@umgeher.org>
Subject: Re: REMOVE games/prboom-plus
To: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2026 13:01:00 +0000

On Thu, Oct 08, 2026 at 06:28:16PM -0300, Lucas de Sena wrote:
> Hi,
> Some years ago i mailed ports@ for removal of games/prboom-plus.
> It got a response from its $MAINTAINER, but the discussion died.
> 
> tl;dr:
> - 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?

IMHO, 2.