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

[Reindl Harald]

Am 22.03.2014 03:05, schrieb Lennart Poettering:
> On Fri, 21.03.14 23:35, Reindl Harald (h.reindl at thelounge.net) wrote:
> 
>>> 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
> 
> So, you do realise that the same Wietse Venema who wrote and then
> stopped maintaining tcpwrappers is the one who didn't add *any*
> tcpwrappers support to Postfix? To this day Postfix doesn't do
> tcpwrappers. Probably for a good reason, don't you think?

until you managed the same stability of interfaces for a couple
of years like postfix don't strip quotes

>> 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
> 
> Wietse is such a lazy person that he didn't had hosts.allow/.deny
> compatibility support to Postfix, isn't he?

ask him why

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