Subject: Re: Packages scheduled for removal before 2006Q3
To: Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@netbsd.org>
From: Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4@gmail.com>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 09/25/2006 14:17:11
On 9/22/06, Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@netbsd.org> wrote:
> hi,
>
> fyi, below is a list of packages which are going to be purged from the
> pkgsrc tree before 2006Q3 branch is cut along with reasons for doing so.
>
> - Mozilla and friends
>
>   www/mozilla

Makefile-thunderbird.common now includes seamonkey/Makefile.common,
which unfortunately breaks thunderbird installation completely, as it
is not similar to the old mozilla Makefile:
....
root@loan8> make
=> Required installed package digest>=20010302: digest-20050731 found
=> Fetching thunderbird-1.0.5-source.tar.bz2
Requesting http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/releases/1.0.5/thunderbird-1.0.5-source.tar.bz2
ftp: Error retrieving file - `404 Not Found'
fetch: Unable to fetch expected file thunderbird-1.0.5-source.tar.bz2
Connected to manna.mozilla.org.
220 (vsFTPd 2.0.1)
331 Please specify the password.
230 Login successful.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
200 Switching to Binary mode.
250 Directory successfully changed.
250 Directory successfully changed.
250 Directory successfully changed.
250 Directory successfully changed.
250 Directory successfully changed.
local: thunderbird-1.0.5-source.tar.bz2 remote: thunderbird-1.0.5-source.tar.bz2
229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||57122|)
550 Failed to open file.
221 Goodbye.
fetch: Unable to fetch expected file thunderbird-1.0.5-source.tar.bz2
.....




>   www/mozilla-bin
>   www/mozilla-bin-nightly
>   www/mozilla-gtk2
>   www/moz-bin-plugger
>   multimedia/mplayer-plugin-mozilla
>   multimedia/mplayer-plugin-mozilla-gtk2
>   multimedia/moz-bin-flash
>   multimedia/moz-flash
>
>   No longer developed upstream, notoriously vulnerable, won't ever be
>   fixed.  There is www/seamonkey whish aims to be Mozilla suite
>   replacement.
>
> - GNU Zebra
>
>   net/zebra
>
>   No longer developed upstream, literally for years.  Vulnerable, nobody
>   stepped up to fix it.  Use net/quagga.
>
> - Cube
>
>   games/cube
>
>   No longer supported upstream, contains several security
>   vulnerabilities which according to its authors won't ever be fixed.
>
> - Quake 3
>
>   games/quake3arena
>   games/quake3arena-demo
>   games/quake3server
>   games/quake3server-excessive
>   games/quake3server-osp
>   games/quake3server-ra3
>   games/quake3server-ut
>
>   Abandoned upstream, numerous security vulnerabilities which will be
>   unlikely ever fixed.
>
>
> regards,
>
> --
> -- Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@{NetBSD,Xtrmntr,silcnet}.org>   --
>
>
>