Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:29:23 -0400 From: Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> To: Remko Lodder <remko@elvandar.org> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/167058: Ipfilter v4.1.28 nolonger supported in FreeBSD 9.0 & 8.2 Message-ID: <4F8F3233.3060208@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <711101FF-037C-46D2-9015-E22405EA6F2D@elvandar.org> References: <201204181517.q3IFHdon046569@freefall.freebsd.org> <4F8EF4B9.9010907@a1poweruser.com> <711101FF-037C-46D2-9015-E22405EA6F2D@elvandar.org>
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Remko Lodder wrote: >> Did you even read the PR. version 5.1.1 is available. >> What is untrue about that fact? >> Who put you in charge of deciding what gets added to the "to do list" for release engineering? > > > I read it. someone has to do the work, and obviously you are not going to do it. > Since the main maintainer isn't active. This is not going to happen, so I decide > to close the ticket. > > Thank you! > > See you did not research enough into what is going on. The ipfilter@cairo.anu.edu.au mailing list has posts where the main maintainer Darren Reed writes he is creating a port of his new 5.1.1 version for the Freebsd port system. Some contact from am official FreeBSD person may speed things along. Saying the main maintainer isn't active is just not true. There have been other ipfilter releases between 4.1.28 and 5.1.1 which never made it into the Freebsd base system. I would think the procedure for inserting ipfilter into the base system would have been caned so it could be used to install new versions as they came along without reinventing the wheel each time. Closing this bug report does not give anyone the opportunity to address this problem because they dont know a new ipfilter version is available and the release engineering team will never add it to their to-do list. I believe in shining the spot light on getting a more current version of ipfilter into the base release and the bug report is the only vehicle to accomplish this.
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