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

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