Re: [pkg-eucalyptus-maintainers] Bug#652376: Removed package(s) from unstable

[Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 08:35:30AM +0100, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Hello Moritz,
> 
> CC debian-qa, as the removal was RoQA.
> 
> yes, eucalyptus is in bad shape, but its packaging team is not inactive, and
> the reason for not working on version 1.6 is that we focus on 2.0, which we can
> not upload yet as it needs the update of another package, gwt.
> 
> I do not think that eucalyptus was blocking the release.  Why did not you
> contact us before ?  Was the removal so urgent ?

Noone bothered to look into CVE-2011-2329, which is related to Eucalyptus,
for half a year.

Reuploading Eucalyptus to the archive is easy, but you need to keep it in 
shape on a continous base.

Cheers,
        Moritz