Re: Remove groovy
On 11/12/07 at 22:31 +0100, Eric Lavarde wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I kindly object to having groovy removed! I absolutely need it for the next
> FreeMind release, that I expect to get in Debian at last!
>
> In response to Marcus (Better), I looked a while ago in groovy and there
> were still some packages missing, but, in deed, doing a better job than
> currently shouldn't be too hard.
>
> OK, I can have a look if nobody else wants it. Is the maintainer Markus
> Crafter somewhat MIA?
He is. The package has been orphaned (see #382815), but then Torsten
Werner (added to Cc) ITAed it.
Lucas
> Paul Wise wrote:
>> On Dec 10, 2007 7:14 AM, Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> wrote:
>>
>>>> It was reported to the Security Team, that groovy embeds a lot of packages,
>>>> several of them security-sensitive:
>> <snip>
>>>> Since it's in contrib, it's not security-supported, but given the state of it (outdated,
>>>> hardly any users) it should likely be just removed?
>>> Unless anyone objects within the next days, I'll file an RM bug.
>>
>> Perhaps people on the debian-java list should be given the chance to
>> adopt or fix groovy or give an opinion on it's usefulness? CCing them.
>>
>> I'm also hoping icedtea will happen for lenny so maybe it will be able
>> to move to main.
>>
>
>
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