2012/2/8 Miroslav Lachman <000.f...@quip.cz>: > 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
Please look to PR http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=164849 -- Svyatoslav _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
