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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping ia64/ppc/sparc profiles to dev/exp
Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 12:33:42
Message-Id: b186b5e7-9a17-2370-72e5-13197e48fb45@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping ia64/ppc/sparc profiles to dev/exp by Rich Freeman
1 On 05/09/2017 04:12 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
2 > On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 12:23 AM, Yury German <blueknight@g.o> wrote:
3 >>
4 >> we can not call for cleanup or release the GLSA,
5 >> waiting for a stabilization of a non-core package, while the actual
6 >> package has been in a tree in ~arch status for weeks or months.
7 >
8 > Why not? If an arch is considered a non-security-supported arch then
9 > you would just ignore it in a security bug.
10 >
11
12 For example, I can't remove the ancient and vulnerable nagios-3.5.1
13 because an alternative is missing keywords:
14
15 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=605724
16
17 If I drop nagios-3.5.1 without the keywords, pnp4nagios breaks.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping ia64/ppc/sparc profiles to dev/exp "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>