FreeBSD ports that you maintain which are currently marked
broken
Oliver Eikemeier
eikemeier at fillmore-labs.com
Wed May 19 03:59:01 PDT 2004
Stefan Walter wrote:
> Stefan Walter in gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports:
>
>>>portname: security/siphon
>>>broken because: Does not fetch
>>>build errors: none.
>>>overview: http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=
>>
>>=3Dsecurity&portname=3Dsiphon
>>
>>http://siphon.datanerds.net/ seems to have the missing file, but access
>>to it is forbidden. I mailed the responsible person.
>>http://gravitino.net/projects/siphon/ and various other sources indicate
>>the project's dead, though.
>
> The missing file is available as [1] now, but the person managing the
> site confirmed that the project is dead. Its OS fingerprints database is
> from 2000, and there's still net-mgmt/p0f, which seems to be actively
> developed and more up to date.
>
> If noone explicitly votes for keeping the port, I won't send a PR to fix
> it, so it'll be removed with the next garbage collection run.
Please submit a PR marking the port as deprecated, with the rationale given
above.
-Oliver
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