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Date:      Wed, 19 May 2004 12:58:08 +0200
From:      Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com>
To:        Stefan Walter <sw@gegenunendlich.de>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD ports that you maintain which are currently marked broken
Message-ID:  <40AB3DC0.2080906@fillmore-labs.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040519104619.GA1118@kyuzo.dunkelkammer.void>
References:  <200405180338.i4I3cNhH044522@quark.rcs.purdue.edu> <20040518191314.GA39363@kyuzo.dunkelkammer.void> <20040519104619.GA1118@kyuzo.dunkelkammer.void>

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Stefan Walter wrote:

> Stefan Walter in gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports:
> 
>>>portname:           security/siphon
>>>broken because:     Does not fetch
>>>build errors:       none.
>>>overview:           http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=
>>
>>=3Dsecurity&portname=3Dsiphon
>>
>>http://siphon.datanerds.net/ seems to have the missing file, but access
>>to it is forbidden. I mailed the responsible person.
>>http://gravitino.net/projects/siphon/ and various other sources indicate
>>the project's dead, though.
> 
> The missing file is available as [1] now, but the person managing the
> site confirmed that the project is dead. Its OS fingerprints database is
> from 2000, and there's still net-mgmt/p0f, which seems to be actively
> developed and more up to date.
> 
> If noone explicitly votes for keeping the port, I won't send a PR to fix
> it, so it'll be removed with the next garbage collection run.

Please submit a PR marking the port as deprecated, with the rationale given
above.

-Oliver



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