Moin!

pecl-pdflib is abandonware and I see no reasons to keep it as dependency.

It not needed by joomla core itself, only for generating reports on pdf format 
which is fully optional and called only with pdflib is present.

So get rid of this dependency as hardcoded for joomla is a best way

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Dima. (desktop, kde, x11, office, ports-secteam)@FreeBSD team
(flu...@freebsd.org, https://t.me/dima_panov)

> On Thursday, Mar 04, 2021 at 11:10 PM, Chris Rees <cr...@bayofrum.net 
> (mailto:cr...@bayofrum.net)> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 04/03/2021 10:44, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > > Am 04.03.2021 um 11:26 schrieb Patrick M. Hausen <hau...@punkt.de>:
> > >
> > > I would be very interested to know when the distribution file on the 
> > > FreeBSD "distfiles"
> > > archive was exchanged, and and why?
> > I did a quick search on one of our older poudriere installations and 
> > *bingo*.
> > In the distfile cache I found this file:
> >
> > $ ll PDFlib-Lite-7.0.5p3.tar.gz
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 pmh staff 8179201 4 Mär 11:38 PDFlib-Lite-7.0.5p3.tar.gz
> > $ shasum PDFlib-Lite-7.0.5p3.tar.gz
> > 42e0605ae21f4b6d25fa2d20e78fed6df36fbaa9 PDFlib-Lite-7.0.5p3.tar.gz
> >
> > Which contains the old license I am referring to.
> >
> > Anyone want a copy of that archive?
>
> That's the actual archive that's been in the port since 2012 :)
>
> It seems to me that dist-mirror and pkg-mirror in
> ports/Mk/bsd.licenses.mk could be met by this, but not auto-accept.
> It'd mean that we had non-free/restricted software being distributed in FTP.
>
> There are two ways around this if you want joomla3 packaged:
>
> - Negotiate with PDFlib GmbH (you might be better at German than me...)
> to allow for commercial use of pdflib (unlikely)
>
> - Stop joomla3 depending on PDFlib by default.
>
> Does it work without PDFlib? If so, I suggest the latter, and that's
> easy to do.
>
> Chris
>
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