ports/94543: request for removal of security/nessus-*-devel

Vasil Dimov vd at FreeBSD.org
Fri Mar 17 15:40:21 UTC 2006


The following reply was made to PR ports/94543; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Vasil Dimov <vd at FreeBSD.org>
To: Udo Schweigert <udo.schweigert at siemens.com>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/94543: request for removal of security/nessus-*-devel
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 17:33:42 +0200

 On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 09:20:36AM +0100, Udo Schweigert wrote:
 > 
 > As the maintainer of the security/nessus-*-devel ports I would like to remove
 > them from the tree as "Tenable Network Security" the company behind nessus
 > has changed their policy. The new nessus-3.x is only delivered as binary and
 > a development version of nessus is no longer available in sources.
 > 
 > The affected ports to be removed are:
 > 
 > 	security/nessus-libraries-devel
 > 	security/nessus-libnasl-devel
 > 	security/nessus-devel
 > 	security/nessus-plugins-devel
 > 
 Does marking those ports as
 
 DEPRECATED=Development version of nessus is no longer available in sources
 EXPIRATION_DATE=2006-04-17
 
 look reasonable to you?
 
 -- 
 Vasil Dimov
 gro.DSBeerF at dv
 
 Testing can show the presense of bugs, but not their absence.
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