Re: fhs transition update
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 11:20:25AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 12:12:18PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 12:48:31PM -0500, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > > 7. glimpse
> > > > Marco Budde <Budde@tu-harburg.de>
> > > >
> > > > Has a grave security bug files now for almost 1.5 years (/tmp races).
> > > > Probably won't make it into woody anyway. Is the maintainer MIA?
> > >
> > > We currently need it for the lists archives, as far as I can remember.
> >
> > Yes, but if glimpse can't be fixed, it doesn't matter. lists-archives'
> > dependency on it doesn't have to be Depends:.
>
> Oh, OK. Having looked at it last night, it's probably fixable, but since
> some of the problems are practically design flaws it's quite a big job
> for a non-free package.
(Cc'd to the maintainer)
So, can we remove glimpse? There hasn't been an upload for almost three
years, and not having it doesn't seem to have particularly damaged the
last stable release.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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