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From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, gentoo-dev-announce@l.g.o
Cc: patrick@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] last rites: obsolete and vulnerable x11-base/xorg-server versions and packages which depend on them
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 13:49:03
Message-Id: 54B12DD2.4070307@gentoo.org
1 In the face of recent security bugs in x11-base/xorg-server, x11 team
2 has decided to drop most of the older versions. Going forward, we will
3 keep 1.12 in the tree for some more time, as a few drivers still depend
4 on it. 1.15 will also be kept for some time after 1.16 goes stable, as
5 long as it is easy enough to backport security patches to it. But both
6 will be masked and dropped as soon as they become too much of a
7 maintenance burden.
8
9 Today's last rites will affect mostly users of Intel's
10 (Poulsbo/Cedarview) proprietary graphics drivers of which there are
11 hopefully not too many.
12
13 # Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh@g.o> (10 Jan 2015)
14 # obsolete and vulnerable, bug #532086
15 # removal in 30 days
16 =x11-base/xorg-server-1.9*
17 =x11-base/xorg-server-1.10*
18 =x11-base/xorg-server-1.11*
19 =x11-base/xorg-server-1.13*
20 =x11-base/xorg-server-1.14*
21
22 # Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh@g.o> (10 Jan 2015)
23 # requires obsolete and vulnerable xorg-server, bug #532086
24 # removal in 30 days
25 x11-drivers/psb-firmware
26 x11-drivers/xf86-input-citron
27 x11-drivers/xf86-video-cyrix
28 x11-drivers/xf86-video-impact
29 x11-drivers/xf86-video-nsc
30 x11-drivers/xf86-video-sunbw2
31 x11-libs/libdrm-poulsbo
32 x11-libs/xpsb-glx