Hi there, I've started a script to replace maintainer lines with "unmaintained". This is mainly meant to mark ports as unmaintained when a maintainer leaves, however we could also automate the port removal and use it for regular port removal as well, such that a developer never manually removes a port, but just marks it as unmaintained, and some script which runs once per day picks them up, sends out a reminder after ~20 days (optionally with a special warning to maintainers of dependent ports), and removes it after 30 days (number of days chosen randomly). This would give other maintainers and users some time to pick a port up. The questions remains who should do security updates to these packages in the days before it's unmaintained. The script is here: http://jw.smts.ch/files/crux/set_unmaint Currently, it does not replace the maintainer but just prints an updated version (add -i to sed line to change this), and it's meant to be run like this: $ set_unmaint ~/crux/ports/core prt-get httpup ... Opinions, patches? Cheers, Johannes -- Johannes Winkelmann mailto:jw@smts.ch Zurich, Switzerland http://jw.smts.ch