Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 23:31:47 -0600 From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: max@FreeBSD.org Subject: HEADSUP: ports that depend on expiring ports Message-ID: <200411192331.47452.linimon@lonesome.com>
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There are a number of ports in the Ports Collection that are either about to expire, or actually expired back before the freeze and no one has gotten around to reaping them yet. I intend to do this fairly soon. However, it has been brought to portmgr's attention that there is no process for notifying maintainers of the dependent ports (we only notify the maintainers of the expiring ports themselves). I don't have the code in place to automate this yet, but here's a quick list. If anyone wants to save the dependent ports, they'd better act in the next few days. (NB: in each of these cases the port has not been updated in over a year). chinese/linux-gtk (ports@FreeBSD.org) will become broken because it depends on chinese/cle_base (ports@FreeBSD.org) which will expire November 21st due to unfixed security problem http://vuxml.freebsd.org/ef253f8b-0727-11d9-b45d-000c41e2cdad.html. www/linux-beonex (trevor@FreeBSD.org) will become broken because it depends on graphics/linux-png10 (ports@FreeBSD.org) which will expire November 21st due to unfixed security problem http://vuxml.freebsd.org/f9e3e60b-e650-11d8-9b0a-000347a4fa7d.html. (Note: the Beonex home page implies that this project has stopped). japanese/sdic (taoka@FreeBSD.org) will become broken because it depends on japanese/edict-sdic (taoka@FreeBSD.org) which was supposed to expire back in August due to a checksum mismatch. mail/xpbiff-youbin (ports@FreeBSD.org) will become broken because it depends on mail/youbin (max@FreeBSD.org) which was supposed to expire back in August due to "locally exploitable buffer overflow in set-user-ID executable". I am aware of 2 other cases and am working on those with the maintainers directly. mcl
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