On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Eric Bélanger <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
+1 from me. Never used it myself.
