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Bug#497225: marked as done (gnome-alsamixer: Dead upstream package without maintainer bug fixes is security risk)

Your message dated Mon, 18 Jun 2018 12:43:47 +0000
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and subject line Bug#898584: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #497225,
regarding gnome-alsamixer: Dead upstream package without maintainer bug fixes is security risk
to be marked as done.

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Package: gnome-alsamixer
Version: 0.9.7~cvs.20060916.ds.1-2
Severity: grave
Tags: security
Justification: user security hole

I am filing this bug to discuss removal of this package from leny.

1. The upstream is dead.
   Last release 2006-08-06 (CVS)
   Current Gnome distribution does not include this software.
2. gnome-alsamixer does not identify new hardwares correctly.
   I have HDA Intel but gnome-alsamixer show it as Sigmatel ....
3. The better alsa mixer support functionality is in GNOME-Applets.
   New gnome-volume-control does better job.
4. No dependency requireis this package in lenny.
5. There are 2 bugs marked upstream.
   The maintainer did not look into these bugs. 
   (I think one of it is just warning, so it may be OK ...)

I know current maintainer took effort for lenny:
 http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gnome-alsamixer.html

I think having unmaintained package our archive with no added benefits
is bad idea for security review.

If my asessment is wrong, maintainer can close this bug.

But I think it is time to request removal.

(Or maintainer to upload transition package and hint it to
debian-release to include it to lenny)

Thans for your work and best regards,

Osamu

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-alsamixer depends on:
ii  gconf2                     2.22.0-1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libart-2.0-2               2.3.20-2      Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libasound2                 1.0.16-2      ALSA library
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.22.0-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0               2.22.0-1      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0             2.22.0-1      The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                      2.7-13        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                  1.6.4-6       The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libgconf2-4                2.22.0-1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.16.5-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                2.20.1.1-1    The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0          2.20.1.1-1    A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0               2.20.1.1-1    The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0             1:2.22.0-4    GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.12.11-3     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                    2:1.0.4-1     X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                  1:2.14.13-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.20.5-2      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                   1.14-4        lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                     2:1.0.3-2     X11 Session Management library

gnome-alsamixer recommends no packages.

gnome-alsamixer suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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Version: 0.9.7~cvs.20060916.ds.1-5+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package gnome-alsamixer has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/898584

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.

This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org.

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Scott Kitterman (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)

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