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Abhay Kedia wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 13 Jun 2007 10:11:24 pm Vlastimil Babka wrote: |
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>> Drop it from stable completely, possibly package.mask or move to |
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>> overlay. Why should this closed-source rootkit be in stable? |
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> If closed source is the criteria of getting dropped from stable status or |
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> tree, than are we dropping netscape-flash, vmware and NVIDIA etc. as well? |
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Nah it's not the only criteria, the focus is on the "rootkit" :) part [1] |
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Also, ion3 was IIRC removed recently also for upstream trying to force |
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new versions against our stable policy. And that was opensource. |
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But maybe Skype is not so pressing to upgrade, just doesn't provide |
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distfiles anymore. Then maybe we don't have to obey, but still it's |
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really questionable if it should be marked stable at all. |
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And yeah I'm a Java dev but at least Java is now open (I admit that the |
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stable VM's in tree are not, yet) and I don't see that coming for Skype. |
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Also Java (and your examples of closed source stuff) are not infamous |
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for the bad stuff mentioned above. |
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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype#Criticisms [2] |
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[2] Oh noes I cited wikipedia, unreliable source of arbitrary information. |
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