[Mageia-dev] Package removal proposal

[David Walser]

Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch at ...> writes:
> Here are several packages candidate for removal:
> - apache-mod_python
> - apache-mod_ruby
> - ocsinventory-server and ocsinventory-agent
> - madwifi-sources

Agreed, and there are surely other unmaintained packages that lack sufficient
need or interest to stay and should be dropped as well.

Furthermore, what is the procedure for dropping a package?  The wicd package is
broken and has unpatched security vulnerabilities[1].  It was previously asked
on this list if it should be dropped, nobody objected, a bug was filed asking
to drop it an assigned to sysadmin-bugs at ml.mageia.org [2], but it hasn't been
dropped as far as I know.

[1] - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5608
[2] - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5926

Some other candidates for removal that come to mind:

abrt/libreport/btparser - tool for sending bug reports to RedHat, does not seem
  to belong in Mageia, our drakxtools have their own tool for sending crash
  reports to our bugzilla, unpatched security issues.
  https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6523

sos - another RedHat-specific thing, unpatched security issues.
  https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6525

libgnomesu - really old and unmaintained upstream, unpatched security issues,
  probably not needed.
  https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7068

I'm sure there are plenty of other good candidates.