Colin Watson wrote: > Leaving it there with known security holes was worse ... > > If you want it back, there is really only one option: find a developer > willing to maintain it properly. That's absolutely all it comes down to.
"Mark L. Kahnt" wrote: > As Colin notes in his reply, and was noted in the advisory that DWN > noted, it was subject to serious bugs that weren't seeing any sign, in > Debian, of getting any better. The source code not being available and > not as many using it anymore, it was not showing signs of being fixed to > be raised to meet Debian standards for security. The decision wasn't > something "commercial" - it was in keeping with the Debian policies > iiuc. OK guys, thanks for the clarifications and explanations. After reading more about this, it's clear that I jumped the gun a bit in being critical of Debian on this issue. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]