Need newer ports

[Kurt Jaeger]

Hi!

> I am building a port of librevault and I require baminimum version
> of 1.58.0 for boost and 3.0.0 of protobuf. I am wondering what would
> be done to make this possible?

For boost: There's a long-running PR for this, because it's really
not simple to upgrade:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199601

So in short: It's not there yet, but it might be close. If you
can test/help with the open issues in that PR, that might
speed up a new boost into the tree.

For protobuf, there's a brand-new PR:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212973

I searched for dependent ports in /usr/ports using

grep -Rl 'devel/protobuf' * > /tmp/file

and reduced it by the depends that aren't exactly protobuf. Using
that way, I found 33 other ports. It needs to be checked if they
still build with the new protobuf and probably if they run, too.

I assume there are many indirect dependencies, so other ports might
be affected as well. It's not a trivial task.

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