[gentoo-dev] Re: net-proxy/squid needs your love

[Alin Năstac]

Hi Markos,

I'm very busy in real life, but I'll try to solve all squid issues this
week.
Btw, [2]  and [3] were solved from net-proxy's perspective and [1]
wasn't fixed by upstream AFAIK.

Cheers,
Alin

On 04/08/2010 13:50, Markos Chandras wrote:
> Hi there
>
> net-proxy/squid needs your love. Bug #311927 and Bug #304751 require a
> version bump. Our user community did an excellent job there providing an
> improved ebuild for that. Furthermore there are several open security
> bugs wrt squid [1][2][3][4]. net-proxy herd what is your status?
> Security bugs should be your first priority. If you are unable to
> maintain certain packages you could ask for help instead of staying
> quiet. Maybe we should list this
> package as maintainer-needed and request some proxy-maintainers from our
> user community. What do you think about that?
>
> @Council: Yet another example that we need to track the status of every
> single project in order to have a clear picture of which projects are
> active and which are dead
>
> @QA: Should step up and commit these ebuilds just to get
> rid of the security bugs which, frankly, don't look that good ( distro
> wise ). I know technically is not our job, but we need to step up here
> and either fix the security bugs since net-proxy can't do that, or mask
> this package which is a no-go.
>
> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/261208
> [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/279379
> [3] http://bugs.gentoo.org/279380
> [4] http://bugs.gentoo.org/301828
>