[Mageia-dev] Package removal proposal

Mon Aug 20 23:02:51 CEST 2012

Le 2012-08-20 21:15, David Walser a écrit :
+> Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch at ...> writes:
+>> Here are several packages candidate for removal:
+>> - apache-mod_python
+>> - apache-mod_ruby
+>> - ocsinventory-server and ocsinventory-agent
+>> - madwifi-sources
+>
+> Agreed, and there are surely other unmaintained packages that lack 
+> sufficient
+> need or interest to stay and should be dropped as well.
+>
+> Furthermore, what is the procedure for dropping a package?  The wicd
+> package is
+> broken and has unpatched security vulnerabilities[1].  It was
+> previously asked
+> on this list if it should be dropped, nobody objected, a bug was 
+> filed asking
+> to drop it an assigned to sysadmin-bugs at ml.mageia.org [2], but it 
+> hasn't been
+> dropped as far as I know.
+>
+> [1] - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5608
+> [2] - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5926
+>
+> Some other candidates for removal that come to mind:
+>
+> abrt/libreport/btparser - tool for sending bug reports to RedHat,
+> does not seem
+>   to belong in Mageia, our drakxtools have their own tool for sending 
+> crash
+>   reports to our bugzilla, unpatched security issues.
+>   https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6523
+>
+> sos - another RedHat-specific thing, unpatched security issues.
+>   https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6525
+>
+> libgnomesu - really old and unmaintained upstream, unpatched security 
+> issues,
+>   probably not needed.
+>   https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7068
+>
+> I'm sure there are plenty of other good candidates.
+
+Some months ago, we were speaking of removing all unmainted packages, I 
+guess this out of brain nowadays ?
+
+