Hi folks, @Laurent: Please don’t post to maintainers@ and users@ at the same time as it leads to bounces when people reply to all from users@
> Am 03.12.2014 um 23:09 schrieb Laurent Blume <[email protected]>: > There's another guy on IRC coming to ask for S8 binaries. I think it is more > than time to remove them from the archive. > > I have nothing against him, he asked nicely, But nevertheless, they must go. > > At this point, they are more a liability than anything else. All the famous > vulnerabilities are there, HEARTBLEED, SHELLSHOCK, POODLE, and those who've > not done the headlines. > > The people who come asking for them are following a pattern: they're > obviously not experimented, and they clearly are not able to assess the > risks, and *never* in a position to take decision. > > Then, their employers follow a similar pattern: they're cheapskates, who want > to get as much money as possible from obsolete systems with no investment in > time nor money. They willingly put their customers are risk because of their > greed. > > And lastly, there's an existing alternative, there's SunFreeware, which, from > a quick look, has much more recent packages. > > So frankly, I think we're doing a disservice to everybody by keeping those > old files online. They should be removed. If a company is motivated to revive > it and provides resources for it, welcome to it. But those files as they > stand are just used as an excuse to avoid doing that. While I do understand your motivation I personally think it is wrong to remove stuff, regardless of how old it is. I cursed the times when I looked up old stuff like firmware and it was gone. What has proposed earlier (by Maciej IIRC) was renaming old stuff to /UNSUPPORTED-USE-ONLY-IF-YOU-ARE-UNPROFESSIONAL/ or similar which I think is ok. Also not depending on Solaris 8 stuff is good and rebuild or drop stuff from the Solaris 8 catalog. I vaguely remember we had a list of that some time ago but can’t find that any more, we should link that also from http://buildfarm.opencsw.org. Best regards — Dago -- "You don't become great by trying to be great, you become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process." - xkcd #896
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