And if you concerned about security just don't install it? Why does the rest of the world who doesn't care have to suffer?
I see this will lead to even more cleaning house. This is how it starts. I can't just hard fork FreeBSD either because then age verification will be my problem. Humanity is doomed.
The sky may not be falling but the concept of the FreeBSD 'base' sure is
Tererible news. They could copy the lpr/lpd of OpenBSD, but not leave us without it.
I apologize I did not mean to be condescending or for it to be taken that way. I mainly meant I've been using FreeBSD for over 20 years. I'm actually only 42 so I'm not really that old. I just feel old.
Somebody has to maintain the ports, even if 98% of the works is just pulling them in an updating the port that's still some effort. And a bunch of these systems are being used as servers, having something like the lpd/lpr available, but not maintained and known to be insecure isn't a great situation. If some group of people out there cares enough to address the issue, it can potentially say. But, given how many printers these days have some degree of support for either CUPS or just sticking a thumbdrive in to print on the printer, I can't blame people for not being interested in working on that particular software rather than something else.
I was not aware OpenBSD may have newer code. Thanks. I will have to look into this.
I'd wager that if anybody had been/is willing to do the work they probably would, but how many people are even using that still? And of those, how many are going to put in the effort rather than just replace the printer they've got with one that's more easily supported when their current printer dies?
In the case of sheepshaver, it was still building. There were just no changes so by a policy it was removed. I also verified once with xdialog that it still built at the time, but was just removed by a policy. I found an older version of the port from git in the tree and it worked. At the time it just made me realize wow windows can still run software decades later, unchanged. If it still builds I just don't see the point in removing. As someone who maintains a few ports I suppose I can see the point of removing unmaintained ports if they break but when they are not broken I just don't get it. It still seems to me like a bit of a flawed concept because again other operating systems can run unchanged software decades later.
It's just my opinion, but if it hasn't got a maintainer it's a lot less likely that any issues will be noticed, I'd be curious as to how many people were even using it if it being pulled didn't result in anybody that cared enough to step up and maintain it. It clearly wasn't mission critical to anybody.
I am also not aware, but they care much more on security than FreeBSD and lpd is still there.
I don't want to argue too much because I understand sometimes there are other reasons as you point out. When I tested xdialog though it did run. I was trying to make a GUI for FuryBSD using bsdinstall, and I wanted to do use xdialog to make a GUI. I didn't know enough at the time to actually try to pick up the port, but I knew enough to test to confirm it still built, and ran.
If you hang around the open source world, or really computers in general long enough, you'll have favorite pieces of software that get discontinued for one reason or another. If you're lucky, it can be run in an emulator or container, for most of the time that I've been using computers that wasn't a viable option.
