pkg audit false negatives

Roger Marquis marquis at roble.com
Fri Aug 11 21:47:38 UTC 2017


> It had been resolved for dovecot (it will now match both variants, since people might still have
> the old variant of the port installed) and there is a new paragraph added to the porters handbook
> which tells that we need to have a look at the vuxml entries.

Thanks Remko.

> Hope this solves your issue,

It may for renamed ports/pkgs but doesn't appear to for deprecations.
Once ports are dropped they do not show up in pkg-audit despite having
been installed via pkg and/or ports.  That's the false negative that
appears to still be a problem.

Roger


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