Re: pkg/ports, pkg audit, and libxml2

In article <slrn10504te.1p7b.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>,
Christian Weisgerber  <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:

Yes, that is unusually long and... *checks repository*... the port
still hasn't been updated.

main is till 2.11.9:
<URL:https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/plain/textproc/libxml2/Makefile>

I _suspect_ the problem is that the port is still at 2.11.x, libxml
head is at 2.14.x, and there are breaking changes inbetween that
need to be dealt with.

Unfortunately.
<URL:https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=279705>

(OpenBSD went from 2.13.x to 2.14.x in April
and had to deal with some breakage.)

Looks like there's Porters activity fixing breakage and deprecating
ports that are dependent on the legacy API but no longerm maintained
by upstream:
<URL:https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=Open&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=New&bug_status=In%20Progress&field0-0-0=product&field0-0-1=component&field0-0-2=alias&field0-0-3=short_desc&field0-0-4=status_whiteboard&no_redirect=1&order=changeddate%20DESC%2Cbug_status%2Cpriority%2Cassigned_to%2Cbug_id&query_format=advanced&type0-0-0=substring&type0-0-1=substring&type0-0-2=substring&type0-0-3=substring&type0-0-4=substring&value0-0-0=libxml2&value0-0-1=libxml2&value0-0-2=libxml2&value0-0-3=libxml2&value0-0-4=libxml2>

John
groenveld@acm.org