On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 4:25 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > a user(Sven-Hendrik Haase) brought to my attention that firestarter has > issues (memleaks). > Well there are apparently some patches available somewhere .... but > > - last release was Jan 29th, 2005 (yes that means 4 years) > - there seems no activity in the project > - it deals with iptables and the kernel (which has changed quite a bit over > the last 4 > years :P ) and is somewhat crucial to system security > - in this state, I don't feel like fixing it(I don't maintain it anymore > anyway) but I do > consider it a security issue > > Proposal to fix: Let's get riddence of it. > > Opinions? > > -T
It has low usage (4%) anyway. No objections in removing it or moving it to unsupported.
