I noticed that the FreeBSD Balsa port is severely outdated - ports has version 2.5.1, which is a few months shy of ten years old. There have been more than 10 new releases since, with the latest being 2.6.4, released on 2022-09-20. It seems rather dangerous to have such an old version still readily available to users as a port/pkg. This applies to all architectures FreeBSD and mail/balsa is available on. This is most likely the entirely wrong place to report this, but I have no idea where else to do so, and it does seem to qualify as a bug insofar running such an old version is inherently dangerous, especially considering countless newer versions are available as part of the GNOME project. Feel free to scold me if this is the wrong place! It's difficult sometimes to find the right avenue of contact.
(In reply to Thom Holwerda from comment #0) Thank you, and for future reference: >> … Please do not submit problem reports about updated versions of >> applications. Ports maintainers are automatically notified … <https://wiki.freebsd.org/Bugzilla> ▶ How to Submit a Bug Report ---- That said: it's unusual to have a ported version more than nine years old, with more than a dozen more recent versions available. ---- Triage: * severity reduced to the norm for an update to a port.
If no objection I take this PR
(In reply to Rodrigo Osorio from comment #2) Thanks! Triage: CC the previously assigned group/list.
I reach a point where balsa 2.6.4 build and is quite usable, now I need to fix the options
(In reply to Rodrigo Osorio from comment #4) That's great news - thank you for your continued work!
A commit in branch main references this bug: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/ports/commit/?id=4c1fbd8d521ce8ba8556514dce583dfd770c3066 commit 4c1fbd8d521ce8ba8556514dce583dfd770c3066 Author: Rodrigo Osorio <rodrigo@FreeBSD.org> AuthorDate: 2023-01-15 20:17:08 +0000 Commit: Rodrigo Osorio <rodrigo@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2023-06-10 16:16:25 +0000 mail/balsa: Update to 2.6.4 Port changes: * Fix build * Add license * Make linters happy again Changelog: https://github.com/GNOME/balsa/blob/master/NEWS PR: 268734 Reported by: <thomholwerda@osnews.com> mail/balsa/Makefile | 51 +-- mail/balsa/distinfo | 5 +- mail/balsa/files/patch-configure | 52 +-- .../files/patch-libbalsa_imap_imap-handle.c (gone) | 10 - mail/balsa/files/patch-libbalsa_mailbox_local.c | 6 +- mail/balsa/files/patch-libbalsa_mailbox_local.h | 4 +- mail/balsa/files/patch-libbalsa_mailbox_maildir.c | 36 +- .../files/patch-libbalsa_mailbox_mbox.c (gone) | 19 -- .../balsa/files/patch-libbalsa_mailbox_mh.c (gone) | 248 -------------- mail/balsa/files/patch-src_main-window.h (gone) | 11 - mail/balsa/files/patch-src_threads.h (gone) | 10 - mail/balsa/pkg-plist | 366 ++++++++++++++++----- 12 files changed, 363 insertions(+), 455 deletions(-)
Hi Thom, It takes some time but now we have the latest version of mail/balsa in ports thanks for the heads-up ! Cheers, -- rodrigo