On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 16:08:43 -0700 Nick Rogers <[email protected]> wrote
> Hello, > > I recently learned that the www/dansguardian port was deprecated due to its > dependency on the old www/squid port (squid 2.7). Is there any way this > port can be revived? I've been using it for years with great success > against newer versions of squid (3.3, 3.4). Usually I would just change the > RUN_DEPENDS to look for squid33 or squid34. The squid dependency could > arguably be removed entirely because all dansguardian does is proxy www > traffic to squid - it doesn't really matter what version it is and the > application itself does not require the squid port to run. Point being, the > port works just fine as is (was). In fact, it would work in its last-known > state correctly now that squid34 is simply www/squid. I realize the > maintainer has not updated the port in a while, but I've been using > dansguardian with FreeBSD for nearly the last decade and it is unfortunate > to see it removed as a port simply because the previous state of the squid > ports was undesirable. > > It would be great if this could be added back. Clearly I am not the only > one still using it. > > I've CC'd the current dansguardian source code maintainer and author in > hopes they can assist and find a new maintainer for the FreeBSD port. > > Thanks. > > -Nick Unless theirs any objection. I'll take it. I'll open a pr(1) with a shar(1) ready, in about an hour. --Chris > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
