nominate for removal: ethereal

Florin Andrei florin at andrei.myip.org
Tue Jul 13 22:58:05 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 15:43, seth vidal wrote:
> So, would it be completely inappropriate to nominate ethereal for
> removal from fc3 due to its spotty history of security problems?

You're kidding, right?

If spotty security history is reason to remove packages, then i can name
a couple dozen right now to be removed, starting with sendmail and ntpd.

Ethereal is an extremely useful tool, please don't cripple the
distribution.

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/





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