[Mageia-dev] Package removal proposal

[Manuel Hiebel]

Le 2012-08-20 21:15, David Walser a écrit :
> 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.

Some months ago, we were speaking of removing all unmainted packages, I 
guess this out of brain nowadays ?