Gentoo Archives: gentoo-security

From: "Peter Volkov (pva)" <pva@g.o>
To: gentoo-security@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-security] libvc unmask
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:09:42
Message-Id: 1158141547.8445.66.camel@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-security] libvc unmask by Cedric Krier
1 On Срд, 2006-09-13 at 10:20 +0200, Cedric Krier wrote:
2 > dev-libs/libvc have been masked for the bug #127757.
3
4 The problem is not security, the problem is that there is no maintainer
5 for rolo and it's deps. Maintainer should unmask the package but seems
6 that nobody of gentoo developers want to maintain it and I can
7 understand them ;). rolo has dead upstream as there was no new releases
8 for more then 3 years. This means that to fix any bug maintainer has to
9 look into sources, and fix it by himself... No joy if you are not using
10 this application.
11
12 Thus currently the best solution is to unmask it locally as it was
13 already told you and may be even copy
14 dev-libs/libvc
15 mail-client/mutt-vc-query
16 app-misc/rolo
17 into your local overlay, as if this situation persist rolo could be
18 removed from portage completely.
19
20 Regards,
21 Peter.

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