HEADSUP: ports that depend on expiring ports
Mark Linimon
linimon at lonesome.com
Fri Nov 19 21:34:53 PST 2004
There are a number of ports in the Ports Collection that are either
about to expire, or actually expired back before the freeze and no
one has gotten around to reaping them yet. I intend to do this fairly
soon. However, it has been brought to portmgr's attention that there
is no process for notifying maintainers of the dependent ports (we only
notify the maintainers of the expiring ports themselves).
I don't have the code in place to automate this yet, but here's a quick
list. If anyone wants to save the dependent ports, they'd better act
in the next few days. (NB: in each of these cases the port has not been
updated in over a year).
chinese/linux-gtk (ports at FreeBSD.org) will become broken because it
depends on chinese/cle_base (ports at FreeBSD.org) which will expire
November 21st due to unfixed security problem
http://vuxml.freebsd.org/ef253f8b-0727-11d9-b45d-000c41e2cdad.html.
www/linux-beonex (trevor at FreeBSD.org) will become broken because it
depends on graphics/linux-png10 (ports at FreeBSD.org) which will expire
November 21st due to unfixed security problem
http://vuxml.freebsd.org/f9e3e60b-e650-11d8-9b0a-000347a4fa7d.html.
(Note: the Beonex home page implies that this project has stopped).
japanese/sdic (taoka at FreeBSD.org) will become broken because it
depends on japanese/edict-sdic (taoka at FreeBSD.org) which was
supposed to expire back in August due to a checksum mismatch.
mail/xpbiff-youbin (ports at FreeBSD.org) will become broken because it
depends on mail/youbin (max at FreeBSD.org) which was supposed to
expire back in August due to "locally exploitable buffer overflow in
set-user-ID executable".
I am aware of 2 other cases and am working on those with the maintainers
directly.
mcl
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