Re: Updating libxslt ?

From: Dan Mahoney (Ports) <freebsd_at_gushi.org>
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2025 19:40:22 UTC
LibXSLT (not sure what the right capitalization is, outside of filenames) seems to have a new maintainer now, within the last week…

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/-/issues/150#note_2507409

Rather than bombard this person, it might be good if the maintainer shot them a note?

-Dan

> On Sep 4, 2025, at 09:33, LuMiWa <lumiwa@dismail.de> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 04 Sep 2025 18:14:29 +0200
> Daniel Lysfjord <lysfjord.daniel@smokepit.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 2025-09-04 17:11, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>>> Is there an update for this on the horizon?
>>> 
>>> The current state of having known security vulnerabilities is
>>> wreaking havoc with portmaster updates.
>>> 
>>> Not complaining, just trying to understand the state of things.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> T
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> [0] and [1]  doesn't paint a too nice picture for this library. Seems 
>> like it is not maintained, and will be archived "soon".. Another
>> gnome library left to rot:)
>> 
>> 0: https://www.freshports.org/textproc/libxslt/
>> 1: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/-/issues
>> 
> 
> And what is the future of Inkscape, GIMP...?
> 
> 
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> and you can foresee the future too.”
> 
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>