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Date:      Wed, 19 May 2004 03:58:14 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD ports that you maintain which are currently marked broken
Message-ID:  <20040519105814.GA84768@xor.obsecurity.org>
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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On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 12:46:19PM +0200, Stefan Walter wrote:
> Stefan Walter in gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports:
>=20
> >> portname:           security/siphon
> >> broken because:     Does not fetch
> >> build errors:       none.
> >> overview:           http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?categ=
ory=3D
> >=3D3Dsecurity&portname=3D3Dsiphon
> >
> > 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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> [1] http://siphon.datanerds.net/siphon-report.txt

Yeah, probably best to let it die.  It was a good proof of concept
that has found better successors.

Kris

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