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Re: remove sympa from lenny?



On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 12:43:39PM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
> sympa has two RC bugs open for about one month, #496520 about insecure
> usage of tmp (which looks at least partially fixed upstream, but has no
> maintainer response) and #498144 about problems on upgrade (with an
> initial maintainer response "will investigate, also happened to people
> at the last security upgrades", but no visible activity since).

Any of them are a regression over the version in Etch?

> Unless the maintainer (or perhaps Olivier who forwarded the first bug
> upstream, CCed) resolve these bugs soon, it might be better to not
> release sympa with lenny.

Please describe this further.

> It does not seem to have reverse dependencies. There are a few users
> (double digit popcon), but not exceedingly many.

sympa provides a public service.

Bastian

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