From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 3 00:44:53 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2F7FC5CF for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2014 00:44:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hapkido.dreamhost.com (hapkido.dreamhost.com [66.33.216.122]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15EED264B for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2014 00:44:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from homiemail-a99.g.dreamhost.com (homie.mail.dreamhost.com [208.97.132.208]) by hapkido.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E14E947DF for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2014 17:39:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from homiemail-a99.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by homiemail-a99.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 003E0FB0072 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2014 17:39:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from exhan.dylanleigh.net (ppp118-209-26-101.lns20.mel4.internode.on.net [118.209.26.101]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: dleigh@htns.net) by homiemail-a99.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 59D38FB006D for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2014 17:39:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 10:39:25 +1000 From: Dylan Leigh To: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Future of (upstream unmaintained) sysutils/autopsy port Message-ID: <20140703003924.GA6592@exhan.dylanleigh.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Author-WWW: http://www.dylanleigh.net User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 00:44:53 -0000 >From the ports-expiring-soon messages: > portname: sysutils/autopsy > description: Web-based (graphical) interface to The Sleuth Kit > maintainer: ports@FreeBSD.org > deprecated because: Unmaintained interactive port > expiration date: 2014-08-20 > build errors: none. > overview: http://portsmon.FreeBSD.org/portoverview.py?category=sysutils&portname=autopsy I am considering taking maintainership of sysutils/autopsy to save it. I have used Autopsy before for a forensics course and have some old saved "cases". The port is already staged and could be made non-interactive easily. On the other hand, I strongly discourage anyone from actually using Autopsy except to read old files/cases. The cross-platform version is no longer maintained (new version 3 is Windows only) and was last updated in 2010. Even then it had serious flaws and is less capable than the commandline tools it interfaces with (sysutils/sleuthkit). I always suggest that the SleuthKit tools be used directly instead, but there are some students who are too scared of the commandline and want to use Autopsy because it provides a GUI. So there are some good reasons for depreciating it which have nothing to do with the port itself being unmaintained + interactive. Is there any policy on keeping ports where upstream is not maintained and the software itself is depreciated (except to open and export old files)? Do we still want to keep such a port in the active tree? -- Dylan Leigh // VU# s4081906 // www.dylanleigh.net