Created attachment 241527 [details] patch for port deprecation The original software author writes on the project homepage: "Polipo is no longer maintained When it was first written, Polipo was probably the best HTTP proxy available. Since then, the web has changed, and HTTP proxies are no longer useful: most traffic is encrypted, and a web proxy merely acts as a dumb intermediary for encrypted traffic. Polipo will no longer be maintained. Here are some alternatives: * if you need your HTTP traffic to originate from a remote IP address, use a VPN or a SOCKS5 proxy; * if you need better caching than your browser provides, use a better browser; * if you need to share your cache between different user-agents or different users, you're sadly out of luck; * if you need HTTP/1.1 pipelining, you're out of luck. Much of the performance can be recovered by using HTTP/2 or 3, but, sadly, HTTP/2 and 3 require encryption without supporting opportunistic encryption, which makes them difficult to deploy in many environments." So prepare the port for removal.
Maintainer informed via mail
A commit in branch main references this bug: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/ports/commit/?id=6f4e95ae076b006c78f589cf68b1552bece76852 commit 6f4e95ae076b006c78f589cf68b1552bece76852 Author: Frank Behrens <frank@pinky.sax.de> AuthorDate: 2023-05-07 07:38:56 +0000 Commit: Daniel Engberg <diizzy@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2023-05-07 07:39:03 +0000 www/polipo: Deprecate and set expiration date to 2023-09-30 Upstream will no longer maintain polipo so follow upstream and sunset it here too. Adjust expiration date so it ends with q3 instead middle of q4. PR: 270878 www/polipo/Makefile | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
Committed, thanks for maintaining this port!