Volker Schlecht <openbsd-po...@schlecht.dev> writes:

> Bump and correction:
>
> It has been broken for almost *three* years.
>
> Any thoughts?

I'm game to delete riak unless somebody speaks up in the next week?

>
> On 12/30/22 09:59, Volker Schlecht wrote:
>> Cc: Maintainer
>> Hi,
>> the version of riak in ports has been broken for almost two years
>> now, so I would consider it a safe assumption that there's not a
>> whole lot of interest in that port.
>> While I could (and would be willing to) try to update it to a more
>> recent version, that builds and works with erlang 25.x, I'm really
>> not sure if it's effort well spent:
>> * Nobody seemed to miss it for two years on OpenBSD
>> * None of the other BSDs provide ports/packages for it
>> * Barely a Linux distribution provides packages for it
>>    https://repology.org/projects/?search=riak
>> At the same time, if/when my proposed update to benchmarks/tsung
>> gets in, broken databases/riak will be the only port holding back a
>> removal of lang/erlang/21 and devel/rebar, both of which are not
>> enjoying significant upstream support anymore.
>> Any thoughts?
>> cu,
>> Volker

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