Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 15:00:07 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: hrs@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: print/acroread9 Adobe Reader Message-ID: <201410281400.s9SE07p2010173@fire.js.berklix.net>
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Hi hrs@FreeBSD.org & ports@freebsd.org I went to install print/acroread9 for current & found it was not in ports/. https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/MOVED?revision=371318&view=markup#l6509 print/acroread9||2014-08-30|Deprecated: many security issues are reported and Adobe no longer actively supports Adobe Reader for Unix https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/print/ https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/branches/RELENG_9_2_0/print/acroread9/Makefile?view=markup https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/tags/RELEASE_9_3_0/print/acroread9/ https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/tags/RELEASE_10_0_0/print/acroread9/ I am Forced to use Adobe Reader by British government tax office. http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/txt/ct600.html I know it's a can of worms, but I had that can of worms under control, eg: - As binaries without source stink & scream "Insecurity" - I ran it inside a chroot, - I ran it as a spare user. - As it devoured CPU/RAM & froze screen, I ran it on a spare host. - As it freaked on AMD+NFS [remote host lock?] file access I ran it on a local, non NFS'd home/ Yes it is a can of worms ... but that can of worms is Needed ! - It handles the XML inside PDF tax form calculations - It does the security key interchange stuff the tax office want (No idea, the tax office just says "Click Here & There" & tax office fail to document what protocols servers standards etc) Removing acroread for security reasons was Really Bad ! It forces me to use the stinkingly More Insecure Microsoft to run the same Adobe Reader the tax office demand. A lot of effort must have gone to build & maintain the port, & now its ripped out of the tree, it forces me & perhaps others to individually maintain private copies as long as we can, with wasted future duplicate maintenance effort, & not available to easily share - all very inefficient. It should please be reinstated but with a WARNING= added to Makefile If the old maintainer hrs@ doesn't want to maintain it, I will if no one else wants to (but I hope hrs@ will :-). Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Linux Unix'78 C Sys Eng Consultant Munich http://berklix.com Indent previous with "> ". Interleave reply paragraphs like a play script. Send plain text, not quoted-printable, HTML, base64, or multipart/alternative.
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