To add my two cents.. Since it's an important package, maybe it's worth seeing if someone can whip up a patch if there isn't already.
Also worth pointing out that lilo is without an upstream maintainer as of recently. Cheers, chillfan On Tuesday, May 24, 2016 3:08 PM, Irrwahn <irrw...@freenet.de> wrote: > To the Devs in charge, and to whom it may concern. > > I just filed an issue against the Devuan slim package, > requesting its removal from future Devuan releases. > > Full quote below signature. > > Regards > Urban > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Request for Removal of slim package from Devuan > > I hereby request that the slim package, containing the SLiM > Simple Login Manager, be removed from future releases of Devuan, > at least from the Jessie and testing suites. It may have its place > in unstable for the time being. > > The reasoning that leads to this appeal is as follows: > > 1. It has no upstream. > The project has evidently been abandoned, the homepage was > taken off the web, leaving behind a stale github mirror that > as of today carries only a README file dated from 2016-04-12, > containing the following information, verbatim quote: > "Note: This repository was used as backup source and is no > longer maintained." [1] > > 2. SLiM has various apparent issues, notably: > * not playing nice with X session managers > * being unable to preserve the last chosen session between logins > * it is a nuisance to provide user support for > > 3. It has already been removed from Debian testing and unstable (sic!). > There is reason to suspect it would have been removed from Debian 8, > were it not for the early Jessie freeze on 2014-11-05. > > 4. The Devuan package appears orphaned, the code has not been touched > for about a year. Considering its upstream is no longer maintained > either, the package might impose a security risk not tenable for a > stable release. > > [1] Cf. https://github.com/data-modul/slim > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng -- Take back your privacy. Switch to www.StartMail.com _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
