The state of KDE on FreeBSD / root vulnerability...

[Tobias C. Berner]

Hi

Which vulnerability do you mean?


area5's plasma5 branch contains ports for plasma5 (kde5) and all the
applications (kile 2.9.60, kate-17.04.0, kdevelop-5.1.0,...) you care
about. swills@ also has a pkg repo -- unfortunately the svn-repository
has been unreachable for the last week.



mfg Tobias


On 19 May 2017 at 17:17, Hannes Hauswedell <h2 at fsfe.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> my main question is whether KDE on FreeBSD is affected by the infamous KDE
> root vulnerability.
>
> I don't want to complain or anything, and I know it's all volunteer work (I
> did lot's testing back in the KDE4 porting efforts), but the current state of
> KDE on FreeBSD seems to be rather desolate to me right now. I have stopped
> reporting bugs years ago, because upstream wouldn't take them, because our
> versions are so outdated. Besides the annoyances of bugs, there now seem to be
> serious security problems and I wonder everyday whether KDE5 (or at least
> KDE4's app packages) are around the corner, or whether I need to migrate all
> my work away from KDE software as fast as possible.
> And yes, I have looked at area51, but it doesn't seems to contain packages for
> any of the relevant apps (kmail, kate, kile, kdevelop...) and also I don't
> want to risk mixing packages on my work computers.
>
> Of course I would love to stick with the KDE apps, but it would be really
> helpful right now to know if there is a plan/timeline for updates, or whether
> this is completely unknown right now.
>
> Thank you,
> Hannes
>
>