[PATCH] textproc/idnits: Fix WWW Reported by: maninaer's own distfiles survey PR: ports/94333 Submitted by: Ion-Mihai "IOnut" Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com> Approved by: maintainer timeout72422e4880
Port details
textproc/idnits 2.17.1
Looks for problems in internet draft formatting
Port info
- Maintainer
- sunpoet@FreeBSD.org
- Packages
- latest: 2.17.1
- Upstream
- Higher version available: 3.3.0
- Last update
- to 2.17.1 · 4127381e26
- Quarterly
- 2026Q4: 2.17.1
- WWW
- https://author-tools.ietf.org/idnits
- Links
- cgit · VuXML · Report wrong data
Install
- Package
# pkg install idnitsinstalls 2.17.1 fromlatest; fromquarterly(2026Q4) 2.17.1- Port
# cd /usr/ports/textproc/idnits && make install clean- Size
- 35 KiB download · 157 KiB installed
- Depends on
- shells/bash 5.3.20
- License
- BSD2CLAUSE or BSD3CLAUSE
Packages by version and architecture
latest
| FreeBSD version | amd64 | aarch64 | i386 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FreeBSD 16 | 2.17.1 | 2.17.1 | – |
| FreeBSD 15 | 2.17.1 | 2.17.1 | – |
| FreeBSD 14 | 2.17.1 | 2.17.1 | 2.17.1 |
quarterly (2026Q4)
| FreeBSD version | amd64 | aarch64 | i386 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FreeBSD 15 | 2.17.1 | 2.17.1 | – |
| FreeBSD 14 | 2.17.1 | 2.17.1 | 2.17.1 |
version as in the ports tree (latest) or the most common one (quarterly) · different version · ✗ not built · – no packages for this platform. Package sets that have not been rebuilt for 60 days are left out.
Unaddressed and VuXML only (0)
No unaddressed CVE and nothing reported by
pkg audit for the packaged version 2.17.1.Fixed (0)
No VuXML entries for this package.
Problem reports (0) · open in Bugzilla, most recently changed first
None.
Commits (62)
idnits uses bash-specific features, so RUN_DEPENDS on it and patch the hash-bang line in the script.59f737488c
Update to 1.85. Only minor changes from 1.82 (but the year one is particularly relevant right now):
* Added a switch (--year NNNN) to use a different year than the
current year in copyright boilerplate.
* New release of gawk (debian 1:3.1.5-1) has problems with /[\200-\376]/.
Re-wrote the expression.
* Error message formatting changes. Stricter error messages
in some cases.fba8a7b7b7Upgrade to idnits 1.82: * Added checks for the occurence of both old and new boilerplate. * Improves verbose output for boilerplate problems. * Handle formfeeds better: - 58 lines plus <FF><EOL> is valid. - Count <FF> on the same line as the page number. * Added a variation on Author's Address Section Name * The code to find and adapt to the particular indentation of a draft didn't w330e05aeb4
Update to 1.74, which adds some minor checks, changes the boilerplate warnings to errors now that the deadline has passed, and improves the output format. Submitted by: Lars Eggert <lars.eggert@gmx.net> PR: ports/83143a0cf1277a5
Update to 1.70, which has better heuristics to recognize the rfc3667 boilerplate which will soon be obsolete.9582968d76
Update to 1.63: updates for use with xml2rfc 1.29 and the RFC 3978 IPR boilerplate that will be mandatory starting May 6.aa13e4ffc3
Update to 1.58. Error messages reformatted Add checks from 1id-guidelines, ID-Checklist, rfc2223, and draft-rfc-editor-rfc2223bis-080ca3906d44
Update to 1.47. No changes visible to FreeBSD users, but this fixes the distfile checksum error as a side effect of upgrading.2a32af90be
Upgrade to 1.46: permits "Contact Information" as an alternative name for "Authors' Addresses"9ca69d5e35
Update to v1.45. This version has major updates for RFC3667/3668 boilerplate among others. Fix my address in MAINTAINER field.dabc6c624e
Add Henrik Levkowetz's idnits tool, for syntax checking Internet Drafts to be submitted to the IETF.4607f9d456