...... Original Message ....... On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 23:11:33 -0700 "Matt Zimmerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 07:58:48AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > >> Steve Langasek wrote: >> > pavuk 0.9pl28-3 includes the fix for DSA-527, but there is another >> > security bug affecting this package (same bug #). Hinting this for >> > removal from sarge. >> >> Not in stable. > >Yes it is; it's in stable/non-US (hence the DSA). > >> > rlpr - hinting for removal. >> >> That won't help since it is in stable as well, so people upgrading >> from stable without security.debian.org will still have that package >> installed. > >It will be marked as obsolete, though. We cannot support packages forever >just because they were in the stable release; supporting the release which >contained them is enough.
If nobody else wants to maintain rlpr I'll take it. I wouldn't call it obsolete because it can be quite useful to print without having a daemon.
