On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote:
> On 2016/07/06 21:41, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>> The next release, 6.0, is approaching fast.  It's time to wind down
>> the ports churn, focus on fixing problems and stop introducing them.
>>
>> Over the next few days, please stop importing new ports and regular
>> updates.  If you're in the middle of something, finish it, but by
>> the weekend this should be done, and commits will be increasingly
>> restricted from there.
>
> Please stop imports now. And updates should be for important fixes
> only. It's not a time to rush things in before release, it's a time
> to polish.
>
>> What's the situation with wxneeded annotations and getpwnam_shadow?
>> If that work hasn't been completed, it's high time to get it done.
>
> Very patchy.
>
> From my old search for things using pw_passwd here are a few that I
> don't recall seeing updates for.
>
> Some of them will most likely be red herrings and in codepaths not
> actually used, and obviously for many of them it's only going to be
> certain things which don't work.
>
> Some of them are very definitely broken and the ports will no
> longer work at all (e.g. some of the pop3 daemons).
>
> It would be nice if people can check ports which they rely on and
> move things to using the _shadow versions of getpwnam/getpwuid
> where needed. Many of these will have existing code to deal with
> shadow passwords using the standard getspnam functions used on
> other OS; this is a good indication that changes will need to be
> made.
>
> Unfortunately I accidentally looked at cucipop and now need to go
> and look for a sick bag (or possibly some pokemon) so I'm not sure
> how many I'm going to be able to fix myself.

> x11/slim

slim works for me (unpatched), I'm using it.

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