Re: Updated proposal for further handling of the micq package
Martin Loschwitz <madkiss@madkiss.org> writes:
> [Posting this with new subject so it doesn't get lost in the big flamewar]
>
> Dear Developer community,
>
> First, sit back please and get a glass of the drink you like most. That might
> have become necessary after the flamewar that took place here in last days.
>
> After my proposal for removing the mICQ package from Debian unstable, there
> have been many different opinions on the ML to this. Some had slightly
> different ideas, others had ideas that were completely different from the
> one that I suggested.
>
> Let me summarize the bits that I was able to collect out of the flames.
>
[...]
> I decided to do it the following way:
>
> 1) Get mICQ removed from archive for now.
> 2) I suggest a code auditing. So far, two people (Namely Martin
> Godisch and Robert Lemmen) have volunteered to audit the code. If
> they are still willing to do that (Give feedback please!), they
> should start and try to get it done as fast as possible.
> 3) If they finished to audit the code, they should write a short report
> (preferably to debian-devel) and tell us what they have found.
> 4) If there is nothing else offensive, there is no reason for not adding mICQ
> back to the archive. As Ruediger already pointed out, i won't take the
> package back after code audit anyway because i stopped to use mICQ.
>
> Any final comments on this?
Well, I believe it is the best way to stop the flam, so go ahead. (And
I also strongly believe that we wont find anything in it...)
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Rémi Vanicat
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http://dept-info.labri.u-bordeaux.fr/~vanicat
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