> Being unable to not fix security issues in a timely manner is a Bad > Thing. We should not support, endorse or otherwise support such > software. Not even in non-free (which is not part of Debian proper).
Just in case there's some confusion about the type of package, I believe "root" is a C++ based scientific analysis package, a replacement for the older Fortran based PAW and PAW++. It's published by Cern as part of Cernlib (I think). It's an analysis package, analagous to Gnuplot. I don't think that it does any network stuff at all, so I don't think that security is an issue. Having this package in Debian would be a tremendous asset. Craig Steffen -- http://www.craigsteffen.net/contact/ current goal: use a CueCat scanner to inventory my books career goal: be the first Vorlon Time Lord
