Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

[Reindl Harald]

Am 21.03.2014 23:16, schrieb Jóhann B. Guðmundsson:
> On 03/21/2014 02:05 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 06:34:22PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>>> >I wonder whether it wouldn't be time to say goodbye to tcpwrappers in
>>> >Fedora. There has been a request in systemd upstream to disable support
>> I talked to some of the RHEL planning people, and they're okay
>> with marking it deprecated in RHEL7. That allays some of my concerns about
>> downstream enterprise needs -- although there was also the comment that the
>> libwrap2 approach would be a good one.
>>
>> I'm also collecting some feedback from CentOS users. I'll wait to report on
>> that for a little bit, but I think in general the majority response is okay
>> with it, with a significantly vocal "why change things that work?"
> 
> In other words you are telling us that now to get something implemented or removed in Fedora we have to not only
> deal with our usual politics and bureaucracy but also all the downstream distribution to us as well...

no, in other words he told you that whe world is not turning around
a few people deperecating anything which does not get a update for
the sake of a update and what some people calling  "legacy" might
be things not needing updates because they just works and update
and replace/drop for the sake of a change does not make things
better for no good reason

the author of tcpwrapper is Wietse Venema, the perosn who created
and maintains postfix - frankly if only 1% of the software out
there would provide his stability and backwards compatibility
a lot of peole could do better things with their time than creat
day for day in case of deprecations and incompatible replacemnets

most of the replacements in the last few years could have been
becakward compatible if the developers would not be too lazy
to care about


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