pdflib for php

[Chris Hodgins]

Thanos Tsouanas wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 12:11:04PM +0200, Cristi Tauber wrote:
> 
>>===>  pdflib-6.0.1 is forbidden: 
>>http://vuxml.freebsd.org/fc7e6a42-6012-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82.html.
>>
>>         Forbidden ? Why ? anyone ...
> 
> 
> Yes this one:  just follow the link.  (pretty obvious ;))
> 
> If you insist in installing the port, 'un' break it manually.
> 
> HTH
> 

Purely out of curiosity.. when a possible exploit such as this is
discovered in a port and a patch is provided, why is it not patched
immediately?  I understand that when a vulnerability is discovered it is
important to look for similar bugs in the file and also the entire port.
  Is this what takes the time or is it purely a maintainer finding the
time to update it?

Again this is just out of curiosity and not related to this port in
particular.

Chris