Doug Barton wrote:
On 02/07/2012 17:13, Svyatoslav Lempert wrote:
2012/2/7<lini...@freebsd.org>:
The ports, and the reason and date that they have been scheduled
for removal, are listed below. If no one has stepped forward before
that time to propose a way to fix the problems (such as via a PR),
the ports will be deleted.
portname: lang/php52
description: PHP Scripting Language
maintainer: ad...@lissyara.su
deprecated because: PHP 5.2 series is not supported anymore, migrate now
expiration date: 2012-03-01
build errors: none.
overview:
http://portsmon.FreeBSD.org/portoverview.py?category=lang&portname=php52
Why so much wish to remove lang/php52?
There are numerous security vulnerabilities in it, and so far no one has
stepped up to thoroughly address them. If you'd like to volunteer to
maintain this version that would be great. Just submit the PR with the
following updates:
All security patches backported
Fix the dependent ports (php52-*) to use the same patches as lang/php52
That's off the top of my head ... there may be other problems.
Are you sure there are any known security vulnerabilities not fixed in
lang/php52? I think that current maintainer Alex Keda
<ad...@lissyara.su> is doing exelent work with backporting all needed
patches to have working and secure PHP 5.2.x in FreeBSD ports tree, so
there is no need to remove this port.
Migrating from 5.2 to 5.3 or any future version is not possible without
modification of PHP scripts. Webhosting servers with old applications
must stay with 5.2 until all clients migrate their code to newer version.
The last version of PHP 4.4 was released 07-Aug-2008 and is still in
ports tree, last version of 5.2 was released 06-Jan-2011 and is well
maintained with security patches.
I don't see any good reason to remove the port, which have active
maintainer fixing all known problems / security vulnerabilities.
Miroslav Lachman
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