Deprecating iridium browser and mark as forbidden

[René Ladan]

On 11-06-2019 13:48, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Before making the move, I prefer sending a mail here to check if someone is
> working on a fix.
I just looked at the WWW site from its pkg-descr and it is dead
(https://iridium-browser.de).
> 
> The iridium browser we do have in the ports is 201805 which is more than a year
> old. meaning it is more than certainly full of security issues (not tracked as
> such by the way).
> 
OpenBSD has a version from April 2019 based on Chromium 73, which is two
major Chromium version behinds. Iridium being a few versions behind
Chromium is not unusual though.

https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/www/iridium/distinfo

> As such I do plan to mark it as FORBIDDEN and deprecate it with an expiration
> date set in 1 month. I plan to do that by the end of the week.
>
Given that Iridium might lack behind Chromium, let's perhaps save some
cycles on the pkg-builders.

René

> Please step in to save that port!
> 
> Best regards,
> Bapt
> 


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