On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 23:29:35 +0200 Pacho Ramos <pa...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> El dom, 08-07-2012 a las 21:49 +0200, Diego Elio Pettenò escribió: > > Il 08/07/2012 20:13, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn ha scritto: > > > Please report a removal bug for this, so any issues concerning > > > users of netkit-tftp can be tracked. > > > > Here it is: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425362 > > > > And actually Robin K. who submitted the overflow bug I fixed, > > pointed out that there _are_ cases where hpa doesn't work but > > netkit does, so I've downgraded the removal to a simple masking for > > bad code. > > > > I guess we'll wait a bit more before removing this, in the mean time > > though I don't really feel happy with leaving it unmasked so it'll > > stay as it is. > > > > If its upstream is completely dead, it has bad code and it has a > replacement, I would still go to treeclean it But if it provides the only means to netboot certain hardware, then you might think twice. jer
