On Mon, Dec 9, 2024 at 9:30 AM Stephen Gallagher <sgall...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Dec 7, 2024 at 12:21 PM Carlos Rodriguez-Fernandez
> <carlosrodrifernan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I took sparse, and http-parser.
> >
> > http-parser in particular is a dead project upstream. However, there is a 
> > good set of packages depending on it. There are also past contributors. If 
> > any of the past contributors want to take it please let me know, I'll be 
> > happy to hand it over: dck, mrunge, orphan, patches, sgallagh, vascom.
> >
>
> I actually thought I'd removed myself from that package; I've migrated
> all of the packages I used to maintain with http-parser over to the
> (supported) llhttp package.
>
> The upstream is very dead and it's been strongly implied to me that
> there are very likely to be security issues with it. I'd argue that we
> need to remove it from the distribution entirely and either fix or
> retire the remaining packages depending on it:
>
> * AusweisApp2-0:2.2.1-1.fc41.x86_64
> * AusweisApp2-0:2.2.2-2.fc41.x86_64
> - Upstream still relies on http-parser and needs to be contacted to
> migrate to a maintained parser.
>
> * flamethrower-0:0.11.0-28.fc41.x86_64
> - This is actually carrying a Fedora-specific patch to use http-parser
> instead of upstream's private fork (called url_parser). Given that
> both of them are effectively unmaintained, I think we want to drop our
> patch and follow upstream (and contact them about switching to a
> maintained parser)
>
> * http-parser-devel-0:2.9.4-12.fc41.i686
> * http-parser-devel-0:2.9.4-12.fc41.x86_64
> - Part of http-parser itself and will be removed if we drop it.
>
> * jabberd-0:2.6.1-28.fc41.x86_64
> - This package is also dead upstream since 2019 and should be dropped
> from Fedora.
>
> * python3-httptools-0:0.6.0-6.fc41.x86_64
> - Latest versions have been converted to llhttp
>
> * slurm-slurmrestd-0:24.05.2-1.fc41.x86_64
> - Upstream is still bound to http-parser, but only for one optional
> component: slurmrestd. We could stop providing this daemon in Fedora
> and communicate to upstream that they need to update to a maintained
> parser.

Sorry for the re-send; used the wrong format for emailing the
individual maintainers.

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