[MacPorts] #20681: php-5.3.0 introduce variant 'suhosin' which adds the suhosin _patch_

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#20681: php-5.3.0 introduce variant 'suhosin' which adds the suhosin _patch_
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 Reporter:  Markus.Ueberall@…          |       Owner:  ryandesign@…           
     Type:  enhancement                |      Status:  assigned               
 Priority:  Normal                     |   Milestone:                         
Component:  ports                      |     Version:  1.7.1                  
 Keywords:                             |        Port:  php5                   
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Changes (by ryandesign@…):

  * owner:  ryandesign@… => ryandesign@…
  * status:  new => assigned


Comment:

 Replying to [ticket:20681 Markus.Ueberall@…]:
 > The attached patch for the 'php5' Portfile introduces a new variant
 which will retrieve and apply the suhosin _patch_ ("[which] implements a
 few low-level protections against buffer overflows or format string
 vulnerabilities"), cf. http://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin/

 These sound like valuable changes. Can anyone explain why they are (for
 some time now, as I understand it) distributed separately from PHP by
 separate people, and not part of the PHP core source code?

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/20681#comment:2>
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