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Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1



Let's look a bit further at those bugreports..

> balsa             27726  balsa cannot be run [0]  (olet@debian.org (Ole J. Tetlie))
> balsa             27894  balsa is linked against ancient version of gtk [0]  (olet@debian.org (Ole J. Tetlie))

A new balsa has already been uploaded (0.4.6-1), I think that fixes these
bugs.

> gnus              25609  Gnus: prerm script failure make it impossible to upgrade/pruge  [64]  (Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@debian.org>)

Removing that will make a _lot_ of people really angry I think..

> htdig             25412  htdig: htdig ignores config file stuff/absolute pathnames compiled in [70]  (Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@caesar.elte.hu>)
> infocom           21478  infocom: Integrating infocom interpreters [175]  (Brian White <bcwhite@pobox.com>)
> jdk1.1            27097  jdk1.1: error in installing jdk1.1: links are in a mess [18]  (Stephen Zander <gibreel@debian.org>)
> jdk1.1            27330  jdk1.1: Files should be conffiles [12]  (Stephen Zander <gibreel@debian.org>)
> jove              27219  jove: Jove wants /usr/tmp [14]  (Loic Prylli <lprylli@graville.fdn.fr>)
> junkbuster        25258  junkbuster: junkbuster has security holes [74]  (Paul Haggart <phaggart@debian.org>)
> kaffe             20980  kaffe: kaffe depends on jdk-common [186]  ()

> kdebase           23655  kdebase includes /etc/X11/Xsession [118]  (Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org>)
> kdebase           25903  kdebase doesn't include rights to distribute kvt [56]  (Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org>)
> kdebase           25974  kvt creates ~/.kde with root as owner and insane permissions  [55]  (Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org>)
> kdegraphics       25627  kdegraphics violates copyright [63]  (Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org>)
> kdelibs0g         24643  kdebase: We have no licence to distribute KDE binaries when linked against Qt [90]  (Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org>)
> kdemultimedia     25628  kmultimedia violates copyright law (and debian policy) [63]  (Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org>)
> kdeutils          25630  kdeutils copyright problems [63]  (Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org>)

Needles to these have been removed.

> knfs              27250  knfs (remote root exploit) [14]  (Anders Hammarquist <iko@debian.org>)

Is that actually in slink? It also has a security problem which has not been
fixed yet, but I seem to remember knfs is still in experimental.

> mozilla           27181  mozilla dumps core [15]  (Debian QA group <debian-qa@lists.debian.org>)

That seems to be a problem with library versions: for some people mozilla
works fine (for me for example), for others it dumps core on startup. We
might want to investigate that further.

> netatalk          25598  netalk: several problems (and the solution) [64]  (Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>)

Looking at the bugreporttitle there already is a solution, so removing this
should not be necessary.

> pcmcia-modules-2  27395  pcmcia-modules are totally broken out of the box [11]  (Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>)
> pcmcia-source     26657  pcmcia-source: Needs this patch to work on 2.1.118+ kernels [32]  (Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>)

27395 is more of a local problem iirc, 26657 should be easy to fix, since the
patch is already supplied. Besides, removing pcmcia will also break the
boot-floppies, so we can't really remove these.

> strace            26065  strace confused about sigaction flags [51]  (Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>)

Let's keep this one :)

> yagirc            24747  yagirc: Binary and Libs for yagirc stored in /bin and /lib [87]  (davidw@efn.org (David N. Welton))

yagirc has just switched maintainer and a new package was uploaded, so this
might already have been fixed.
> 
> Again, please let me know if you feel differently.  If I don't hear otherwise,
> I'll be removing all of those packages in the list directly above to be
> removed from slink during the freeze.
> 
> Note: the above lists are made directly from the bug logs.  I haven't
> actually correlated them with the list of packages that actually exist.
> If a package listed above has already been removed from the distribution,
> don't worry about it.

Again, I offer my help with the bugscripts, since my scripts do check if a
package is still available.

Wichert.

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