The openmosix packages in unstable are rotting and broken, and I would suggest that they be removed. The openmosix package has a serious FTBS (#232810) for 1 year and 159 days old as of this writing. The maintainer's response is, "Unfortunately I don't tend to use OpenMosix any more...If someone's interested in OpenMosix for 2.4 and want to see it in sarge I'd encourage them to hijack the package or contact me about getting the issues fixed...". The package has other important bugs that are trivial to fix (#230460) and are nearly two years old. The kernel-patch-openmosix has a known security bug (#319621), and no fix is pending (the maintainer said, "IRC that the latest patch was for 2.4.26 and that there are most likely many problems with this patch, and that you "just can't get worked up over problems in 2+ year old software".) The kernel-patch-openmosix has a wishlist bug (#264290) for over a year asking to upgrade and it includes a patch in the bug report. When the maintainer made it clear that he did not care to maintain the packages any longer, I suggested that he do the nice thing and RFA them. He's unhelpful retort was that anyone can RFA them, suggesting that I do so instead of bothering him to take care of his package appropriately. The Openmosix packages were not allowed into Sarge because of the horrible state that they are in, and in my opinion the packages do not provide any added value to the archive, but instead are a blight. micah
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