pkg/39281: Now that pkgsrc has centerim, the old centericq should be deprecated

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>Number:         39281
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       Now that pkgsrc has centerim, the old centericq should be 
>deprecated
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Aug 03 22:30:00 +0000 2008
>Originator:     Ben Wong
>Release:        NetBSD 4.0
>Organization:
        
>Environment:
        
        
System: NetBSD quince.wongs.net 4.0 NetBSD 4.0 (GENERIC) #0: Sat Dec 15 
22:00:07 PST 2007 
builds@wb46:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-4-0-RELEASE/hpcmips/200712160005Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-4-0-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/hpcmips/compile/GENERIC
 hpcmips
Architecture: mipsel
Machine: hpcmips
>Description:

Pkgsrc has two extremely similar chat clients available: centericq and
centerim. The DESCR file for both is the same except a small note that
centerim is a fork of centericq. No indication is given which should
be preferred or why.

After compiling centericq from source, I found that it is *very*
buggy. Searching the web, it appears that centerim is the same thing
as centericq, except that it has bug fixes applied.


>How-To-Repeat:

One way to crash centericq is to try to join a Jabber conference, for
example, joining openmoko%conferences.jabber.org@localhost causes the following:

    centericq in malloc(): warning: recursive call.
    centericq in malloc(): warning: recursive call.
    centericq in malloc(): warning: recursive call.
    [last message repeated dozens of times]
    what():   St9bad_alloc
    Abort trap (core dumped)

Google indicates that centerim has this bug, among others, fixed.  (I
would test centerim myself, but I don't expect it will take over 24hrs
to compile on my little 32MB NetBSD/hpcmips palmtop.)


>Fix:

Either the centericq package should be removed from pkgsrc or the
DESCR should be changed to mention that centerim is preferrable.

>Unformatted: