Bug 226680 - www/waterfox: expiring as Temporary experiment?
Summary: www/waterfox: expiring as Temporary experiment?
Status: Closed Not Accepted
Alias: None
Product: Ports & Packages
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Individual Port(s) (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Only Me
Assignee: Jan Beich
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Reported: 2018-03-17 18:05 UTC by Naram Qashat
Modified: 2018-12-26 04:12 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

See Also:
jbeich: maintainer-feedback+


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Description Naram Qashat 2018-03-17 18:05:28 UTC
This might not be the best place for this, but I have attempted twice in the last few weeks to inquire about the expiration status of www/waterfox.

http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?cfff58d3f6ee9bc4a4b6d17b780a1ed9 (Feb 28)
http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4e6964ba66037feb41b03ee6076443e1 (Mar 13)

It it set to expire on March 20, 2018 with the message "Temporary experiment", but keeps receiving updates, both from jbeich and upstream.

What can be done to keep this port from expiring, short of taking over maintaining it? (I'd prefer not to maintain the port myself, as I do not keep track of code changes to Firefox or Waterfox to know what patches/backports need to be applied to keep the port secure.)
Comment 1 Graham Perrin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-03-21 01:45:09 UTC
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/www/waterfox/Makefile?annotate=465044&pathrev=465044#l12

> EXPIRATION_DATE=2018-05-16
Comment 2 Graham Perrin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-05-30 22:10:09 UTC
Naram, FYI from <https://github.com/MrAlex94/Waterfox/issues/567#issuecomment-390104356>: 

> … WF56 is likely reach EOL together with ESR52
Comment 3 Jan Beich freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-11-24 21:30:10 UTC
Removed in ports r480900. While not supported (by me) bringing the port back isn't hard (yet) e.g.,

  $ cd /usr/ports
  $ svn cp www/waterfox@480899 www/waterfox
  $ svn rm www/waterfox/files/patch-bug1393283
  $ sed -i '' 's/56\.2\.3/56.2.5/; /PORTREVISION/d' www/waterfox/Makefile
  $ make makesum -C www/waterfox
  $ make all deinstall install clean -C www/waterfox

Beware the changes in Mk/bsd.gecko.mk, www/firefox/Makefile.options, other Mk/* files or in -CURRENT may break it in future.
Comment 4 Graham Perrin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-12-26 04:12:35 UTC
Thanks! 

Using poudriere to build Waterfox 56.2.6
https://www.reddit.com/r/waterfox/comments/9pocgm/-/ecke66g/

NB patch-bug1395486 is no longer required; https://github.com/MrAlex94/Waterfox/pull/777 was merged.