Opened 6 years ago
Closed 6 years ago
#58022 closed defect (fixed)
[Port Abandoned] libmcs: multiple issues
| Reported by: | chrstphrchvz (Christopher Chavez) | Owned by: | jdunn@… |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | ports | Version: | |
| Keywords: | Cc: | jordan@…, mf2k (Frank Schima), ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt), MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez) | |
| Port: | libmcs |
Description
Originally I just wanted to improve grammar in a comment on line 43 of the portfile (i dont → I don't). However, I found that although port is not outdated, the homepage and distfiles sites are gone, and the license is also incorrect (according to COPYING from libmcs 0.7.2 it is BSD, not GPL-3).
The port maintainer has not had any activity since 2010 and at least one of their other ports was been deemed abandoned back in 2013: #40593. So this port is probably also abandoned.
Before I open a PR for any changes, would it be better to just remove libmcs? Nothing depends on this port. Other package managers (FreeBSD, Fedora, Debian/Ubuntu) have already removed their libmcs packages (Fedora replaces it with GSettings). I personally have no use for this port.
Change History (6)
comment:1 Changed 6 years ago by mf2k (Frank Schima)
| Cc: | mf2k added |
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comment:2 Changed 6 years ago by mf2k (Frank Schima)
| Cc: | ryandesign added |
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comment:3 Changed 6 years ago by MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez)
| Cc: | MarcusCalhoun-Lopez added |
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comment:4 Changed 6 years ago by MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez)
comment:5 Changed 6 years ago by MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez)
comment:6 Changed 6 years ago by MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez)
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | assigned → closed |
Closing this ticket since the issues brought up seem to have been addressed.
The issue of deleting the port entirely continues in a pull request.
I think that if the upstream is gone, that we should remove the port. Who knows how many security flaws it has? Ryan might have a different opinion though.