Re: UPDATE: security/libident

Hi Stuart,

thanks for looking into this.

On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 10:03:47AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2023/02/26 21:37, Michael wrote:
> > >
> > > -# Public Domain
> > > +MAINTAINER= Michael <michi+openbsd@dataswamp.org>
> > > +
> > > +# Public Domain with exceptions
> > > +# See https://www.remlab.net/files/libident/COPYING
> > > PERMIT_PACKAGE= Yes
>
> "Public domain with exceptions" doesn't make sense.
>
> I would either stick with the previous (preferred), or say something
> like "public domain source code, plus autoconf-related files".
>

I guess we might as well keep the previous statement as long as the URL
is provided as a hint. That still seems relevant to me.

Updated patch below.


Index: Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/ports/security/libident/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.23
diff -u -p -r1.23 Makefile
--- Makefile 11 Mar 2022 19:53:31 -0000 1.23
+++ Makefile 27 Feb 2023 11:25:39 -0000
@@ -3,13 +3,16 @@ COMMENT= library to interface the ident
SHARED_LIBS += ident 0.0 # 0.0

DISTNAME= libident-0.32
-CATEGORIES= devel net security
-MASTER_SITES= http://www.remlab.net/files/libident/
-REVISION= 1
+CATEGORIES= security devel net
+MASTER_SITES= https://www.remlab.net/files/libident/
+REVISION= 2

-HOMEPAGE= http://www.remlab.net/libident/
+HOMEPAGE= https://www.remlab.net/libident/
+
+MAINTAINER= Michael <michi+openbsd@dataswamp.org>

# Public Domain
+# See https://www.remlab.net/files/libident/COPYING
PERMIT_PACKAGE= Yes

CONFIGURE_STYLE= gnu
Index: pkg/DESCR
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/ports/security/libident/pkg/DESCR,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
diff -u -p -r1.1.1.1 DESCR
--- pkg/DESCR 29 Apr 1998 05:22:54 -0000 1.1.1.1
+++ pkg/DESCR 27 Feb 2023 11:25:39 -0000
@@ -1,21 +1,5 @@
-COPYRIGHT ISSUES:
-
- This version of 'libident' is hereby released into the
- Public Domain. It may be distributed for a fee or without
- a fee. We only ask you not to pretend you wrote it.
-
-If you make any changes, please send sources or a diff of it to
-us (pen@lysator.liu.se or pell@lysator.liu.se), so we can keep
-_one_ unified version of libident available...
-
-COMMENTS:
-
-This is the second stab at a small library to interface to the Ident
-protocol server. Maybe this will work correctly on some machines.. :-)
-
-The ident-tester.c file is a small daemon (to be started from Inetd)
-that does an ident lookup on you if you telnet into it. Can be used
-to verify that your Ident server is working correctly.
-
-I'm currently running this "ident-tester" on port 114 at lysator.liu.se
-(130.236.254.1) if you wish to test your server.
+This is a library which provides a simple interface to the Ident
+protocol on the client side. It is meant to be used by daemons to try
+to authenticate users using the Ident protocol. For this to work,
+users need to have an Ident server running on the system from which
+they are connected.