Thursday, October 13, 2022

Re: upgrade magicpoint port

On 2022/10/13 12:41, Fox Steward wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> the current version of the "magicpoint" port is 1.09a.
> The latest available version is 1.13a (Feb 14 2008).
>
> Would it be possible to have the port upgraded to the latest
> version (e.g. in order to get UTF-8 support)?
>
> From CSV history:
>
> - (2013-10-12) Updated to version: magicpoint-1.09a
> - (2009-08-10) Updated to version: magicpoint-1.11bp9
>
> How come there was a downgrade in 2013?
> There was probably a "good reason" for that.

CVS history says:

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revision 1.37
date: 2005/03/01 18:19:52; author: jcs; state: Exp; lines: +8 -12;
revert to magicpoint-1.09a and merge in newer infrastructure
changes, newer 1.11 versions are busted

call it magicpoint-1.11bp1 as a temporary hack

requested by deraadt and henning
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