Opened 5 years ago

Closed 5 years ago

#58022 closed defect (fixed)

[Port Abandoned] libmcs: multiple issues

Reported by: chrstphrchvz (Christopher Chavez) Owned by: jdunn@…
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version:
Keywords: Cc: jordan@…, mf2k (Frank Schima), ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt), MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez)
Port: libmcs

Description

Originally I just wanted to improve grammar in a comment on line 43 of the portfile (i dontI don't). However, I found that although port is not outdated, the homepage and distfiles sites are gone, and the license is also incorrect (according to COPYING from libmcs 0.7.2 it is BSD, not GPL-3).

The port maintainer has not had any activity since 2010 and at least one of their other ports was been deemed abandoned back in 2013: #40593. So this port is probably also abandoned.

Before I open a PR for any changes, would it be better to just remove libmcs? Nothing depends on this port. Other package managers (FreeBSD, Fedora, Debian/Ubuntu) have already removed their libmcs packages (Fedora replaces it with GSettings). I personally have no use for this port.

Change History (6)

comment:1 Changed 5 years ago by mf2k (Frank Schima)

Cc: mf2k added

comment:2 Changed 5 years ago by mf2k (Frank Schima)

Cc: ryandesign added

I think that if the upstream is gone, that we should remove the port. Who knows how many security flaws it has? Ryan might have a different opinion though.

comment:3 Changed 5 years ago by MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez)

Cc: MarcusCalhoun-Lopez added

comment:4 Changed 5 years ago by MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez)

In f422a7de2024c74824311d4b22212e07f0651953/macports-ports (master):

libmcs: remove maintainer (port abandoned)

See #58022

comment:5 Changed 5 years ago by MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez)

In aa21b2cc8db4be82b52d12fa216adc1ec05c8693/macports-ports (master):

libmcs: fix license GPL-3->BSD

See #58022

comment:6 Changed 5 years ago by MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez)

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

Closing this ticket since the issues brought up seem to have been addressed.
The issue of deleting the port entirely continues in a pull request.

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