Re: final report on all woody DSAs and sarge
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On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 23:11:33 -0700 "Matt Zimmerman" <mdz@debian.org> wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 07:58:48AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
>
>> Steve Langasek wrote:
>> > pavuk 0.9pl28-3 includes the fix for DSA-527, but there is another
>> > security bug affecting this package (same bug #). Hinting this for
>> > removal from sarge.
>>
>> Not in stable.
>
>Yes it is; it's in stable/non-US (hence the DSA).
>
>> > rlpr - hinting for removal.
>>
>> That won't help since it is in stable as well, so people upgrading
>> from stable without security.debian.org will still have that package
>> installed.
>
>It will be marked as obsolete, though. We cannot support packages forever
>just because they were in the stable release; supporting the release which
>contained them is enough.
If nobody else wants to maintain rlpr I'll take it. I wouldn't call it
obsolete because it can be quite useful to print without having a daemon.
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