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On 05/11/2017 08:57 AM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: |
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> Hi folks, |
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> Rxvt is ancient. It's been replace by rxvt-unicode. Rxvt hasn't seen |
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> updates in years. Recently it's been the subject of a security |
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> vulnerability, and I suspect it's filled with other potential |
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> vulnerabilities. Rxvt has no upstream. I tried reaching out to the |
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> former upstream, and it's evident everybody has moved on and has no |
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> interest in further maintenance. It doesn't even have a Gentoo |
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> maintainer! |
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> Given this, I'd like to remove rxvt from Gentoo, with the usual |
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> mask-for-30-days process. |
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> Does anybody have any objections to me doing this? (I'll wait a week |
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> from now before taking any actions.) |
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> Regards, |
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> Jason |
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> |
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Sounds sane to me. It might be helpful to ask if anyone in gentoo-user |
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is interested in proxying, but as far as I know anyone who used rxvt |
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migrated to rxvt-unicode once it was stable. |
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