Broken port qmail-tls, upstream dead

Kurt Jaeger pi at freebsd.org
Mon Nov 12 06:20:23 UTC 2018


Hi!

> due to recent changes in openssl that comes with 12, qmail-tls and
> derived ports don't build anymore. I fixed most of the compile issues
> and submitted them upstream, but despite checking via several channels,
> got no reply.
> 
> If it was just for the ports-patch for the tls-patch, I would just
> provide one and be good. However at least one feature breaks (and that
> is for ALL platforms, not only 12) with my patch-patch.

Which feature breaks ?

Patches can be applied conditionally (e.g. only for 12).
If you provide the patch in a way that fixes the build only for 12 ?

> Any suggestions how to proceed? Break that feature for all of them?
> Spend more time on trying to fix that? Keep qmail-tls broken until
> upstream responds?

Migrate to exim 8-) ? If upstream is dead, maybe it's a signal
to migrate away ?

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