Hi,

On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 05:16:49PM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 02:58:00PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > At the very least, the limitation that this program cannot safely be
> > used with untrusted input needs to be prominently documented (I'd
> > suggest the package description and the manual page).  web2png would be
> > harder to replace this way, but at least people wanting to make
> > straightforward use of gif2png should perhaps be advised to use some
> > other image processing system instead whose maintainers have a more
> > reasonable approach to reports of undefined behaviour in their programs.
> 
> Thanks for reporting this!
> 
> Let's just remove the package, we have properly maintained (and heavily
> fuzzed) alternatives like imagemagick/graphicsmagick's convert and web2png
> seems to be entirely a fringe use case.

I added a removal hint, so it should be gone soon.

Ivo

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