Brian May <[email protected]> schrieb: > --001a11c1fd62df72e504f0aac077 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On 24 January 2014 04:14, Jelmer Vernooij <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > My proposal is to drop the package from the archive, but I wanted to >> > give others a chance to shout out that I'm wrong and that there's some >> > compelling use-case I've missed. >> > If someone can convince me that the packages are useful I'm happy to >> > spend some effort on them. >> > However, I don't think that's the case. >> FWIW we are currently having the same discussion for the Heimdal packages. >> > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.kerberos.heimdal.general/7608 > > I think these old binaries could make the entire source package and all > binary packages it builds look bad, if for example somebody discovers a > serious security issue. Which is very possible, as I don't think anyone is > really interested in the source code any more.
I agree with the removal. http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2375 was already a sufficiently unpleasant christmas present (exploit was posted on on 24th December) Cheers, Moritz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
