Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 05:40:58 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> Subject: Re: sysutils/cfs Message-ID: <4E64C35A.50004@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <201109050933.p859XEbP004874@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <201109050933.p859XEbP004874@fire.js.berklix.net>
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On 09/05/2011 02:33, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Chris Rees wrote: >> On 4 September 2011 21:32, Julian H. Stacey <jhs@berklix.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Whoops, also missed a CVE -- buffer overflows can cause a DoS. >>>> Expiration date altered to 1 month accordingly. >>> >>> It is not responsible to threaten to remove ports without warning >>> between releases for non urgent reasons. We understand that this is your perspective, however the community in general has a different idea. >>> Better to deprecate such non urgent ports, & wait a while after next >>> release is rolled, to give release users a warning & some time >>> to volunteer (or if a firm using releases, perhaps time to allocate >>> a staff member if a port is important to them). That's an interesting idea, but incredibly unlikely to happen. >> Yeah... perhaps if there isn't a vulnerability. At the moment it's >> marked FORBIDDEN, > > Correction: > "At the moment" all those with 8.2-RELEASE/ports still see no FORBIDDEN, That's what portaudit is for. > The Attic is the standard myopic excuse, ignoring not all FreeBSD > release users have CVS, It is available to everyone, and trivial to configure. The fact that removed ports still exist in CVS is not a "myopic excuse," it's a fact. We need to make the best decisions we can to provide the best support possible for the largest percentage of our users. -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/
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