Re: To be removed from wheezy as well
Hi again
After some more reading I think removing it should be ok anyway. I'll
change the wording from "will be removed" to "may be removed" to allow
us the freedom to keep it if nobody takes the action to actually
remove it.
// Ola
On 17 December 2017 at 20:28, Ola Lundqvist <ola@inguza.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I agree that it may not be the best to remove it then. I suggest we
> mark it as no-dsa then. Any objections?
>
> // Ola
>
> On 22 November 2017 at 21:00, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org> wrote:
>> On 08/11/17 20:19, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Considering that this package is about to be removed from jessie I
>>> guess it should be removed from wheezy too. How is that done? Should I
>>> contact the FTP maintainers about it, or do we simply ignore the
>>> issue?
>>
>> We don't have point releases, so I'm not sure we can get a package removed at
>> this stage without extra work by the ftp masters. So our options would be:
>>
>> - mark as no-dsa if it's not important enough
>> - mark as unsupported / end-of-life
>> - fix it
>> - get it removed
>>
>> The issue seems only exploitable if it's used by a service that is exposed
>> remotely or to other issues... and has no rdeps in wheezy. OTOH there is at
>> least one sponsor using that package. So removing it may not be the best course
>> given there is a proposed patch. So I'd go with either no-dsa or fix it,
>> depending on the assessed importance.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Emilio
>
>
>
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