On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 06:11:22PM -0700, Jeremy Evans wrote:
> puppet-dashboard is one of the only remaining ports still depending on
> ruby 1.8.
> 
> Embeds Rails 2.3.17, released in Feburary 2013, and many other ruby
> libraries of similar vintage.  I'm not sure it's actually vulnerable to
> any of the many Rails vulnerabilities announced since, but it wouldn't
> surprise me.
> 
> Port doesn't actually build anything, it basically just untars and
> retars the distfile, other than fixing shebang lines and changing
> some hardcoded paths.  I think removing it using the following quirk
> makes sense:

It does provide a detailed pkg-readme.
But yeah, the last release is from 2014 and this application has been deprecated
for years anyway.

> "web application with no benefit being packaged"
> 
> OKs to remove?

OK with me.

-- 
Antoine

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