On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 07:46:37AM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 06:11:22PM -0700, Jeremy Evans wrote:
> > puppet-dashboard is one of the only remaining ports still depending on
> > ruby 1.8.
> > 
> > Embeds Rails 2.3.17, released in Feburary 2013, and many other ruby
> > libraries of similar vintage.  I'm not sure it's actually vulnerable to
> > any of the many Rails vulnerabilities announced since, but it wouldn't
> > surprise me.
> > 
> > Port doesn't actually build anything, it basically just untars and
> > retars the distfile, other than fixing shebang lines and changing
> > some hardcoded paths.  I think removing it using the following quirk
> > makes sense:
> 
> It does provide a detailed pkg-readme.
> But yeah, the last release is from 2014 and this application has been 
> deprecated
> for years anyway.
> 
> > "web application with no benefit being packaged"
> > 
> > OKs to remove?
> 
> OK with me.
> 
> -- 
> Antoine

I'm OK with removing it, however I'd paint the bikeshed with 'no longer
maintained upstream'.

Cheers,
-- 
jasper

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