> Joshua Haase <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> André Silva <[email protected]> writes:
>>
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>>> On 10/04/2016 07:31 PM, Alejandro Hernández wrote:
>>>> But I'm talking about what to do with detected unsecured (long time)
>>>> unmaintained packages. I mean packages without updates with security
>>>> vulnerabilities known. (Like nowadays 'icecat')
>>> We could move icecat to [libre-testing] until new version will be
>>> released, what do you think guys?
>> Agreed.
> testing is for new, possible unstable packages, not for old and
> unmaintained.
>
> i'd remove them or move them to [unmaintained].  there's lots of
> unmaintained packages on [pcr] too...
>
>
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I agree that [libre-testing] isn't the place for old/unmaintained packages.
If a package has been completely abandoned upstream and a security
vulnerability has been found, it should probably just be removed.

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