cvs commit: ports/mail/metamail Makefile

[Jacques A. Vidrine]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 02:59:41PM -0700, Mark Linimon wrote:
> linimon     2004/04/12 14:59:41 PDT
> 
>   FreeBSD ports repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     mail/metamail        Makefile 
>   Log:
>   Although it pains me to do this (look at the listing of the directory
>   as to why :-) ), the distfile survey reports that Nathaniel's original
>   site for this software is long gone.  A Google search shows the mirror
>   that I added to be the best option, and that the most recent distfile is
>   from 1994.  The only other links refer to security problems; although
>   all the known ones have been fixed, Debian claims that:
>   
>     We have been devoting some effort to trying to avoid shipping metamail
>     in the future.  It became unmaintainable and these are probably not the
>     last of the vulnerabilities.
>   
>   Accordingly, mark it as 'deprecated'.  If anyone is using this code,
>   they should prepare to adopt the port and address any security concerns
>   going forward.
>   
>   Revision  Changes    Path
>   1.24      +4 -1      ports/mail/metamail/Makefile

Thanks, Mark.  My plea for a maintainer

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20040218215305.GA47727_madman.celabo.org%40ns.sol.net

has long expired.

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques Vidrine / nectar at celabo.org / jvidrine at verio.net / nectar at freebsd.org