git: f68ee0e7a1e8 - main - shar: add a deprecation notice

From: Kyle Evans <kevans_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 02:15:40 UTC
The branch main has been updated by kevans:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=f68ee0e7a1e8732f725cad4ac708ec49093782d4

commit f68ee0e7a1e8732f725cad4ac708ec49093782d4
Author:     Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2025-01-02 02:15:36 +0000
Commit:     Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2025-01-02 02:15:36 +0000

    shar: add a deprecation notice
    
    The shar(1) program is simple, but the fundamental idea of a sh archive
    is risky at best and one that we probably shouldn't be promoting as
    prominently as a program in $PATH and a manpage.  Let's deprecate and
    remove it, since the same functionality can easily be found in
    tar(1) instead.
    
    Reviewed by:    emaste, philip
    Reviewed by:    allanjude, brooks, delphij, des, imp, rpokala (previous)
    MFC after:      3 days
    Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D48130
---
 usr.bin/shar/shar.1 | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/usr.bin/shar/shar.1 b/usr.bin/shar/shar.1
index 903f937491dc..df97021b1bba 100644
--- a/usr.bin/shar/shar.1
+++ b/usr.bin/shar/shar.1
@@ -25,12 +25,24 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.Dd January 31, 2019
+.Dd January 1, 2025
 .Dt SHAR 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
 .Nm shar
 .Nd create a shell archive of files
+.Sh DEPRECATION NOTICE
+.Nm
+is obsolete and may not be present in
+.Fx 15
+and later.
+Because shell archives are simultaneously data and code and are typically
+interpreted by
+.Xr sh 1 ,
+they can easily be trojan-horsed and pose a significant security risk to users.
+The
+.Xr tar 1
+utility can still produce shar encodings of files if needed.
 .Sh SYNOPSIS
 .Nm
 .Ar