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Date:      Thu, 28 Sep 2000 16:38:37 -0500
From:      "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@iteration.net>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "Chris D. Faulhaber" <jedgar@fxp.org>, Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>, woju@FreeBSD.ee.Ntu.edu.TW, ports@freebsd.org, vanilla@freebsd.org, foxfair@freebsd.org, clive@cirx.org, freebsd-taiwan-chinese@freebsd.sinica.edu.tw
Subject:   Ports/chinese/pine3 and other issues [was Re: pine from: buffer overflow patch]
Message-ID:  <20000928163837.A61013@peorth.iteration.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009271418470.13057-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>; from kris@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 02:20:30PM -0700
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009270643570.27891-100000@earth.causticlabs.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009271418470.13057-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 02:20:30PM -0700, Kris Kennaway scribbled:
| On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Chris D. Faulhaber wrote:
| > On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Mike Silbersack wrote:
| > > (Presumably pine 3 should also be patched, but I'm not interested in
| > > touching it.  Is anyone interested in removing the pine3 port?)
| > Sorry, someone beat you too it.  ports/mail/pine3 was removed Feb 23,
| > 2000.
| chinese/pine3 still exists - IMO, it should either be updated to pine4,
| removed, or a big nasty security warning added. There are many security
| holes in pine3.
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The maintainer has been very busy.  I was given to understand that
he has a situation preventing him from contributing.
(  finger woju@freebsd.sinica.edu.tw :) )

Because some of the ports/chinese user base may be still using pine3,
Can we mark it BROKEN temporarily, change the MAINTAINER to me?
Would anyone object to that? I will send a PR to remove the
chinese/pine3 after two months.  (see attached patch)

ports/chinese has been suffering from low maintenance due to most of
the maintainers not active anymore.  Many of them are in active
compulsory military service.

Would it be good if we changed some of maintainerships to
freebsd-taiwan-chinese@freebsd.sinica.edu.tw ?

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--- /usr/ports/chinese/pine3/Makefile	Fri Sep  1 00:28:21 2000
+++ Makefile	Thu Sep 28 16:34:33 2000
@@ -12,7 +12,9 @@
 DISTNAME=       pine${PORTVERSION}
 EXTRACT_SUFX=	.tar.Z
 
-MAINTAINER=	woju@FreeBSD.ee.Ntu.edu.TW
+MAINTAINER=	keichii@iteration.net
+
+BROKEN=		PINE3 has a buffer overflow security problem.
 
 MAKE_ENV=	FILESDIR=${FILESDIR}
 MAN1= 		pine.1 pico.1 pilot.1

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