[packman] Moving xmms from Essentials somewhere else
marguerite
i at marguerite.su
Wed Dec 30 18:50:02 CET 2015
Hi,
> 在 2015年12月31日,00:07,Tomáš Chvátal <tomas.chvatal at gmail.com> 写道:
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> 2015-12-30 15:39 GMT+01:00 Marguerite Su <i at marguerite.su>:
>> Hi,
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>> On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 12:31 AM, Tomáš Chvátal <tomas.chvatal at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > as xmms is old as ages it is still used as multimedia player, but it pulls
>> > in ton of things like gtk1 and libxml1 that are quite expected to have
>> > security vulterabilities.
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>> > It would probably be good to:
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>> > a) remove it - everyone would scream
>> > b) move it to some xmms repository to not let people on essentials
>> > accidentaly install some sec hole.
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>> Advice taken, moved to Multimedia :-)
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> That is not good idea either, it should all go to another repo as whole. Also you have to move all the glib1 gtk1 and so on.
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> Tom
Okay, I will move them too tomorrow.
BTW, we have a repository named "R.I.P", how about moving xmms and all its dependencies there?
That's almost the same as removal, but specfile, patches can be preserved.
Marguerite
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