Re: Packages removed from frozen
>>"Craig" == Craig Brozefsky <craig@red-bean.com> writes:
Craig> I think that removing packages for this would be ludicrous.
Really? Difficult, maybe, politically hard, maybe. but
ludicrous? That's very narrow minded of you.
Craig> I can think of two packages which presently cannot be built
Craig> without themselves which I would be extremely upset if they
Craig> were removed from Debian; cmucl, and bigloo (although bigloo
Craig> upstream tarball is dispensed as scheme compiled into C which
Craig> can be built itself, you cannot modify bigloo source itself
Craig> and compile it without bigloo).
So how many packages are we talking about now? I still think
that any package that requires a circular build depends should be in
an excempted package list somewhere. In fact, it is so hard to track
trojans (has everyone forgotten pike hack of the C compiler that
inserted code in binary copies of itself and login to always allow
him to login?), that Iwould like to see a list of these packages
generated for teh Security FAQ.
Craig> Luckily, I'm pretty damn sure noone would seriously propose
Craig> these
Just to prove you are wrog, I.m tempted to do so. If not
removed, then definitely marked on the security FAQ.
Craig> packages be removed (bigloo will be removed for other reasons
Craig> possibly). I think Debian has plenty of other issues to worry about,
Craig> and I don't wanna have this one suck up my time.
So stay out of the discussion. Evil grin. And us others can
have our way.
manoj
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