Re: git: aa48259f3371 - main - periodic.conf: remove long deprecated security_daily_compat_var()

From: Michael Osipov <michaelo_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 17:29:35 UTC
On 2024-05-23 18:05, Mike Karels wrote:
> On 23 May 2024, at 10:14, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> 
>> On Thu 23 May 14:34, Michael Osipov wrote:
>>> On 2024-05-23 14:10, Mike Karels wrote:
>>>> On 22 May 2024, at 10:07, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Fri 03 May 07:40, Michael Osipov wrote:
>>>>>> The branch main has been updated by michaelo:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=aa48259f337100e79933d660fec8856371f761ed
>>>>>>
>>>>>> commit aa48259f337100e79933d660fec8856371f761ed
>>>>>> Author:     Michael Osipov <michaelo@FreeBSD.org>
>>>>>> AuthorDate: 2024-04-15 11:05:17 +0000
>>>>>> Commit:     Michael Osipov <michaelo@FreeBSD.org>
>>>>>> CommitDate: 2024-05-03 07:38:55 +0000
>>>>>>
>>>>>>       periodic.conf: remove long deprecated security_daily_compat_var()
>>>>>>
>>>>>>       This function is documented to be gone in after 11. Time to remove this
>>>>>>       compat shim.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>       PR:             275296
>>>>>>       Reviewed by:    jrm (mentor)
>>>>>>       MFC after:      1 month
>>>>>>       Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D44796
>>>>>
>>>>> this broke pkg's periodic script, I would have appreciated a heads up to give me
>>>>> time to prepare a release compatible prior this commit.
>>>>>
>>>>> This also breaks some ports.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bapt
>>>>
>>>> This produces almost a dozen failure messages in the daily security email.
>>>> Given that the deprecated function was still in use, it should not be removed.
>>>> Michael, please revert this.
>>>
>>> Salut Baptiste,
>>> Hi Mike,
>>>
>>> this is surprising that is it still in use although clear marked as
>>> deprecated after 11. Though, Baptiste has pushed a new pkg release yesterday
>>> [1] and only main is affected, do you still prefer to revert this commit
>>> (for now)?
>>>
>>> @bapt, can you name the affected ports and report a PR, so we can track
>>> them?
>>>
>>
>> This was in use beside the deprecation, because pkg for one is supposed to
>> support as many version of freebsd as possible so we had to keep the deprecation
>> notice.
>>
>> I have released a new version of pkg without it and merged that version in
>> quarterly branches, so even if it gets MFCed we should be safe.
>>
>> I was scared more ports where keeping for the same reason the deprecated code, I
>> span the ports tree itself and found one port which I fixed straight away, I
>> also did a deep analysis of the any port which plist contains etc/periodic,
>> I extracted all their sources and I found nothing.
>>
>> so I think we are safe now. I don't think we should revert.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Bapt
> 
> OK, I'll withdraw my request to revert if we're confident that there are no
> stragglers.

Alright, thank you folks. We'll keep as-is and MFC will still land no 
sooner than in June.  Personal thanks to Baptiste because you picked up 
the problem so quickly!

Michael