On 5/9/17 8:33 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 05/09/2017 04:12 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
>> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 12:23 AM, Yury German <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> we can not call for cleanup or release the GLSA,
>>> waiting for a stabilization of a non-core package, while the actual
>>> package has been in a tree in ~arch status for weeks or months.
>>
>> Why not?  If an arch is considered a non-security-supported arch then
>> you would just ignore it in a security bug.
>>
> 
> For example, I can't remove the ancient and vulnerable nagios-3.5.1
> because an alternative is missing keywords:
> 
>   https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=605724
> 
> If I drop nagios-3.5.1 without the keywords, pnp4nagios breaks.
> 
> 

Perhaps I'm missing the issue, but can you just follow the dependencies
and drop keywords accordingly so the tree remains consistent.

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