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From:
Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Subject:
Re: New port: lyrebird, the obfourscator
To:
Caspar Schutijser <caspar@schutijser.com>
Cc:
Douglas Silva <doug.hs@proton.me>, "ports@openbsd.org" <ports@openbsd.org>
Date:
Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:04:56 +0000

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On 2025/12/22 17:21, Caspar Schutijser wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 01:29:20AM +0000, Douglas Silva wrote:
> > Lyrebird is a fork of obfs4proxy maintained by the Tor Project. It's an obfuscator commonly used for deploying obfs4 Tor bridges. It's written in Go.
> > 
> > https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/lyrebird
> > 
> > This is my first attempt to contribute to the ports tree, so please test it and send me your feedback.
> > 
> > I used the obfs4proxy port as a starting point. It hasn't seen a release since 2022, which is around the time the fork was made — it may be considered unmaintained.
> > 
> > The old project is hosted here: https://gitlab.com/yawning/obfs4
> 
> Thanks for creating a Lyrebird port. That has been on my to do list
> for a while.
> 
> I'm wondering if this can be fixed easily:
>   $ lyrebird -version
>   lyrebird devel
> It would be better if it reported the actual version number.
> 
> Upstream's Makefile
> <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/lyrebird/-/blob/main/Makefile?ref_type=heads>
> shows how they fix it. I don't have time to look into integrating that
> into your port right now. If you want you can have a look, or I'll have
> a look another time.

this ought to (untested)

MODGO_LDFLAGS =         -X 'main.lyrebirdVersion=${PKGNAME:S/lyrebird-//}'

> I plan to do more testing when I have more time (probably in a few days)
> and then I also want to import it with sthen@'s OK.
> 
> Caspar
>