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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Package removal proposal</H1>
<B>David Walser</B>
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<I>Mon Aug 20 21:15:50 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>Guillaume Rousse <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">guillomovitch at ...</A>> writes:
><i> Here are several packages candidate for removal:
</I>><i> - apache-mod_python
</I>><i> - apache-mod_ruby
</I>><i> - ocsinventory-server and ocsinventory-agent
</I>><i> - madwifi-sources
</I>
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 <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">sysadmin-bugs at ml.mageia.org</A> [2], but it hasn't been
dropped as far as I know.
[1] - <A HREF="https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5608">https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5608</A>
[2] - <A HREF="https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5926">https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5926</A>
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.
<A HREF="https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6523">https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6523</A>
sos - another RedHat-specific thing, unpatched security issues.
<A HREF="https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6525">https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6525</A>
libgnomesu - really old and unmaintained upstream, unpatched security issues,
probably not needed.
<A HREF="https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7068">https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7068</A>
I'm sure there are plenty of other good candidates.
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