From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Jul 23 12: 0:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from home.bsdclub.org (home.bsdclub.org [202.227.26.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21FF237B78B for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 12:00:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sada@bsdclub.org) Received: (from sada@localhost) by home.bsdclub.org (8.9.3/3.7W) id DAA90742; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 03:59:45 +0900 (JST) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 03:59:45 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <200007231859.DAA90742@home.bsdclub.org> To: trevor@jpj.net Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, girgen@partitur.se, obrien@NUXI.com, lioux@uol.com.br, sada@bsdclub.org Subject: Re: Kill Netscape us ports and version 4.08. (was Re: Netscapebrowsers us versions avail. abroad) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 23 Jul 2000 13:13:06 -0400 (EDT)". From: SADA Kenji Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailer: mnews [version 1.22] 1999-12/19(Sun) Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article trevor@jpj.net writes: >> > Also I'm planning to remove Netscape-4.08 ports and make >> > www/netscape47-c as MASTERDIR. Anyone needs those ports today ? >> >> A couple of months ago (or so) someone proposed removing the old versions. >> Someone else countered by saying that the newer ones consume more memory >> than some users can spare. No one mentioned the numerous security bugs in >> the old versions. Maybe they should at least carry a warning, something >> like "if you are going to use these on the Internet, not just for viewing >> files on your hard drive, read http://www.nat.bg/~joro/netscape.html >> first". I see. How about new ``NEED_SECURITY_WARNING'' option for the old versions ? >> > Are you saying that we need www/netscape473-c/n and/or something ? >> >> It looks to me like the only reason for the 4.73 version was to try to fix >> the SSL problem described in >> http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-05.html . However, >> http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-08.html says there's still a >> similar problem in 4.73. The "international" versions have crippled SSL >> anyway, unless Fortify is used. The Fortify people stopped development >> after Netscape 4.72. In light of all that, I think version 4.72 would be >> best for the users I mentioned. Sounds reasonable to me. Any other comments for new www/netscape472-c/n ? > all To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message