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From: Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for net-ftp/netkit-tftp
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 00:58:22
Message-Id: 20120709025710.2c0911f0@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for net-ftp/netkit-tftp by Pacho Ramos
1 On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 23:29:35 +0200
2 Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > El dom, 08-07-2012 a las 21:49 +0200, Diego Elio Pettenò escribió:
5 > > Il 08/07/2012 20:13, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn ha scritto:
6 > > > Please report a removal bug for this, so any issues concerning
7 > > > users of netkit-tftp can be tracked.
8 > >
9 > > Here it is:
10 > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425362
11 > >
12 > > And actually Robin K. who submitted the overflow bug I fixed,
13 > > pointed out that there _are_ cases where hpa doesn't work but
14 > > netkit does, so I've downgraded the removal to a simple masking for
15 > > bad code.
16 > >
17 > > I guess we'll wait a bit more before removing this, in the mean time
18 > > though I don't really feel happy with leaving it unmasked so it'll
19 > > stay as it is.
20 > >
21 >
22 > If its upstream is completely dead, it has bad code and it has a
23 > replacement, I would still go to treeclean it
24
25 But if it provides the only means to netboot certain hardware, then you
26 might think twice.
27
28
29 jer

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for net-ftp/netkit-tftp "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>