Jokings aside games/xlennart is unmaintained.
That port is current with the latest distribution minor point release. The underlying software is unmaintained/defunct. This is a different situation entirely.
Tell us if you've experienced any problems with the current port running on a 13.1 or 12.3 release of FreeBSD, including the display manager you've chosen to use it with and perhaps briefly the combination of hardware used which may have a pertinent influence on your issue.
As the game is very old, arguably lame, a momentary satirical whimsy of its author, a knock off of a game over a quarter of a century old fitting the same description, ultimately just a gross triviality, please don't be surprised if no one responds or cares. I mean that in the most compassionate way.
On the other hand, XBill is an important part of open source history and heritage, in an ideal world its compatibility and function should be maintained, so to bring XLennart along with such efforts should not take much additional effort.
We are more concerned with FreeBSD ports which fall behind their active software projects' iterating versions, items 3 and 4 of your original post, or useful/popular open source software lacking a FreeBSD port altogether, a class that items 1 and 2 may fit. In either case while it is not ideal it is no catastrophe, as the
Porter's Handbook is well written, the
Portstree [and
Framework] relatively well engineered and quite actively maintained, and individual members of our community often write or update many a port though
Bugzilla without taking on the responsibility or obligation to become maintainer of a port to which they contribute.
I wonder if poorly managed ports aren't more detrimental than unmaintained ports. I for one feel I am guilty of lackluster maintenance of ports upon which my claim may possibly thwart or discourage others' adoption or collective maintenance, while I imagine one potentially who waits for my action, as I am prone to suffer arbitrary or sudden bouts of incarceration and all other sorts of work/life balance mismanagement. At any rate, I'm back on my task, at least for the time being, and I have always felt supported and assured by this amazing community.
I hope that instead of feeling pressured to either accept liability and obligation to
maintain a port, lest in frustration you otherwise leave us in defeat for potentially a more trendy [yet fleeting] open source distro of likely less well thought out architecture and engineering, rather you'd please feel our encouragement to
try and simply
contribute to these ports. When one exhibits the courage to try publicly and yet fail miserably, orders of magnitude more attention and support will mobilize to their aid from the community.
I am living proof that one can make a successful career, maybe a legacy even, of pathetic failure
with public embarrassment as angels among us have lifted me to higher levels of productivity, greater freedom and responsibility, than I ever dreamed possible of attaining for myself, in such a manner I could not find among any other software development community on Earth. However you will not find a post or email of mine going back decades in which I stood apart to point out flaws with an aloof or dismissive delivery, nor made suggestions while trivializing the effort required, nor threw my arms up at an early stage of despair to ask for help in a defeated tone. (Not saying that's exactly what you've done but yet it may describe something close to how you're being perceived.)
If you will please tell us your overall
objective(s), not merely your narrow problem(s), then, no matter how trivial or meaningless it seems to be, I will certainly do my very best to help you (provided it shows that you've sought your own way somewhat deep into either the
Porter's Handbook and/or a third-party project's README, with a certain level of perseverance only to find yourself well past your comfort zone). And so when, try as I might,
I too fail miserably to help you, as
I myself am woefully inept,
then, I'm willing to bet upon it, a band of these heroes mightier than us shall materialize out of the woodwork as they or their ilk always have before, for a grateful me, in every single instance of my desperate need.