[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,
>> 
>> 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.
>> >
>> > It would probably be good to:
>> >
>> > a) remove it - everyone would scream
>> > b) move it to some xmms repository to not let people on essentials
>> > accidentaly install some sec hole.
>> 
>> Advice taken, moved to Multimedia :-)
> 
> 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. 
> 
> 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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