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Re: Can fidogate be removed?



reassign 374520 ftp.debian.org
retitle 374520 RM: fidogate -- RoQA; security-buggy, RC-buggy, orphaned, very few users
thanks

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 03:12:06PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> > fidogate:
> > * Has had a security issue reported;
> > * Has a number of policy violations;
> > * Has been orphaned for two months;
> > * Has 4 popcon installs with 1 vote;
> > * Is a couple of versions behind upstream;
> > * Is a gateway for Fidonet, does that even exist anymore nowadays?
> > 
> > In my opinion, we'd better not ship it with etch.
> 
> Given I only picked it up because it was orphaned and no one else was
> interested I'm inclined to agree. Fidonet does still exist in a limited
> form from my understanding, but obviously there isn't enough interest in
> maintaining it in Debian. My own Fido involvement ended some time ago.

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adn
Mohammed Adnène Trojette



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