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Re: A Round of Removals



Hi,

On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 04:17:04PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 09:55:47PM +0200, Jochen Voss wrote:
> > > Is there a list available with just the [REMOVE] packages, rather than
> Both acroread and netscape have security bugs that we CANNOT reasonably fix

as for acroread:

People will need and therefore try to get it anyway since some PDF files
cannot be viewed using gv+gs (-> postscript error).

> Newer versions of Acrobat Reader are not redistributable (see the BTS), so
> this needs to go anyway.

Adobe is already in league with THE Evil.

> >   ngrep
> 
> ngrep's bug is arguably inflated; it only affects sparc.  There is a patch
> there, though, if anyone cares about it.

I've looked around and found that some of these packages have their bugs
only on Alpha or, probably even more rarely used, HP-PA. But so far my
understanding was that a release is aimed to provide the same set of
packages for all supported architectures.


Best,
--Toni++

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