nominate for removal: ethereal

Stephen Smoogen smoogen at lanl.gov
Thu Jul 8 15:15:45 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 16:43, seth vidal wrote:
> So, would it be completely inappropriate to nominate ethereal for
> removal from fc3 due to its spotty history of security problems?
> 
> It seems like an excellent place to start thinking of packages that
> should be maintained, in fedora extras, by the people interested in
> using them, not by the central developers at red hat. 
> 

Are most of the problems in ethereal or in libpcap? libpcap seems to
have a spottier record.. but that would mean a lot more packages to be
removed.

> Thoughts?
> 
> -sv
-- 
Stephen John Smoogen		smoogen at lanl.gov
Los Alamos National Lab  CCN-5 Sched 5/40  PH: 4-0645
Ta-03 SM-1498 MailStop B255 DP 10S  Los Alamos, NM 87545
-- Please, I have had too much of the stupid today. Please wait until
-- tomorrow to say these things so my tolerance has refreshed. 





More information about the fedora-devel-list mailing list