Re: git: 307e28238343 - main - sysutils/screen49: Fix fetch

On 2025-05-13 19:08, Cy Schubert wrote:
> On Tue, 13 May 2025 18:53:08 +0200
> Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 03:48:27PM -0700, Cy Schubert wrote:
>>> Their tarball doesn't include security patches. Security patches are
>>> included in their 4.9.1 branch but not in the tarball.
>>>
>>> Do you still want me to undo and mark the port FORBIDDEN?
>>
>> Please don't mark the port FORBIDDEN, the way you are getting the source
>> is just fine.
>>
> 
> Too late for fetching source from upstream's git repo. diizzy@
> objected. It was reverted and forbidden. Now reverted back and the
> patches have been imported directly into the port. It appears upstream
> will not tag a new point release. We can keep screen49 for now but
> it will be deprecated should there be any new unfixed CVEs.
> 
> The screen meta-port now points to screen50. People wishing to use the
> old screen should install screen49. But they should plan on migrating
> to screen/screen50. Screen 5.0's hardstatus parser had been rewritten.
> It is no longer compatible with the previous hardstatus. Additionally
> there are some regressions. I have opened a couple of tickets with
> upstream regarding the regressions. Their parser doesn't work as they
> expect.
> 
> Regardless, we must move forward. I would like to see screen49 removed
> at some point.
> 

Thanks, ideally it should be deprecated as soon as upstream stops 
supporting it and you can also look at alternatives such as tmux, cu, 
tio etc depending on your usecase.

Best regards,
Daniel