[Mageia-dev] Drop package: swftools

Colin Guthrie mageia at colin.guthr.ie
Fri Apr 20 10:17:15 CEST 2012


'Twas brillig, and David Walser at 19/04/12 21:56 did gyre and gimble:
> nicolas vigier <boklm at ...> writes:
>> On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, David Walser wrote:
>>
>>> Should we drop the swftools package from Cauldron?
>>>
>>> Gentoo has dropped it because it is unmaintained upstream and has an
> unpatched security flaw:
>>> http://lwn.net/Alerts/493118/
>>
>> It seems this flaw was fixed in their git repository in 2010 :
>>
> http://wiki.swftools.org/viewgit/?a=commit&p=swftools-git%20&h=5a4a20931aade60f0e99df0819fbd1c007a705da
>>
>> They don't release new versions often, but still update their git
>> repository.
> 
> Do we have this fix in our package?

I see no patches in SVN so I presume not.

As Johnny said, 0.9.2 is out. Perhaps we should include this for mga2?

Col




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