On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 12:53 PM, John Marino <freebs...@marino.st> wrote:

>
> Here's the issue I think some folks have:
>
> "Outdated": debatable.  If outdated means a newer release is available,
> then yes.  If "outdated" means it outlived its usefulness, I'd say no. This
> term seems subjectively used here.
>
> "prone to break": Perhaps, but it's not broken now.
>
> "possibly insecure":  I think this needs to be "known insecure" rather
> than holding it's last release date against it.


http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20100413-1.txt

Probably other security issues as well.  I didn't have to look very long.
 In a codebase as large as KDE's, it seems a very slim chance indeed years
could go by without maintenance and still maintain security.



-- 
Adam Vande More
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