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Date:      Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:23:00 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Fred Cox <sailorfred@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: www/dotproject out of date and vulnerable
Message-ID:  <20060919222300.GA50048@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060919221806.17148.qmail@web31813.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References:  <20060919220905.GA49727@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060919221806.17148.qmail@web31813.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

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On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 03:18:01PM -0700, Fred Cox wrote:
> It's current state is that it will install a
> vulnerable version with either the installed php and
> mysql client or php5 and mysql5.  In the latter case,
> there are many bugs in the installed port.
>=20
> If I submit what I have now, it will install the
> updated version with PHP4.  The user will still have
> to track down the mysql problem until I can do the
> right thing, but there will be a period of time while
> I learn about making a port from scratch.
>=20
> I'm trying to get a read on whether imperfect
> improvement is worth checking in, or whether the
> typical thing is to wait for perfection, even if that
> might take a while.

"Will fail to package" is pretty far from perfection in my book :)

Mark the port FORBIDDEN if you have to, but a port that will not build
with default settings should not be committed.

Kris

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