nominate for removal: ethereal

Paul Nasrat pnasrat at redhat.com
Thu Jul 8 08:17:25 UTC 2004


On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 09:14:35AM +0100, Huw Lynes wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 18:43:21 -0400
> seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu> wrote:
> 
> > So, would it be completely inappropriate to nominate ethereal for
> > removal from fc3 due to its spotty history of security problems?
> > 
> It may have a spotty security history but it's phenomenally useful. I would be
> unhappy to see it go unless there was a package of equivalent functionality to
> replace it.

I believe the point was it should be in Fedora Extras not Core.  So it would still be available for install.

Paul





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