I concur with this request. On Mar 26, 2013 12:33 PM, "Micah Anderson" <mi...@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org > Usertags: rm > > I would like to request the removal of the package irssi-plugin-otr, the > reasons > being: > > 1. there is a +3 year outstanding security issue with emotes being sent in > the > clear: #569506 > > 2. there is an almost 3-year outstanding issue with dataloss due to > regular and > frequent segfaults (bringing down all of irssi and all state) with it: > #576696 > > 3. i haven't bothered to file a bug about the awful memory leaks > > 4. none of the above are ever going to be resolved, based on upstream's > apparent abandoning of the code > > 5. there is a new irssi-plugin-otr that is about to be released, it is a > complete re-write that has none of these issues and is actually quite > stable. Having this broken one in wheezy forever is going to cause > confusion and > unhappy upstream. I've discussed the state of the debian situation with > them, > and they would like to have the existing one removed: #695150 > > It has the same version as in squeeze, and there has been no upload since > 2009, > and has no r-deps. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 7.0 > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash >
