Hi Jonathan, as you can read in the attached mail, overkill is shortly before removal from Debian. In September, you showed some interest in overkill, and I suggested that you take over maintenance.[1] Do you still want to do this, or should we rather remove overkill from Debian?
Greetings, Joachim [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=548563 Am Sonntag, den 29.11.2009, 18:25 +0000 schrieb Simon McVittie: > Package: overkill > Version: 0.16-14 > Severity: serious > Justification: RC security bug, unmaintained upstream, low popcon (20 votes) > User: debian...@lists.debian.org > Usertags: proposed-removal > > overkill seems like a possible candidate for removal from Debian: > > * security-buggy (#549310, overflows a heap-allocated buffer when constructing > outgoing network packets) > * coding style suggests that many more overflow vulnerabilities are likely > * declining popcon with only 20 votes > * no upstream release since 2001 despite security vulnerabilities > > If you want to keep this package around in Debian, please just close this bug, > and do an upload to fix the issues in it. In this package's case, I think this > is likely to require becoming the (de facto) upstream maintainer. > > If you don't think it's worth keeping, please send the following commands > to cont...@bugs.debian.org, replacing nnnnnn with this bug's number: > > severity nnnnnn normal > reassign nnnnnn ftp.debian.org > retitle nnnnnn RM: <packagename> -- RoM; <reasons> > thanks > > For more information, see > http://wiki.debian.org/ftpmaster_Removals > http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.txt > > Regards, > smcv > at the Cambridge BSP -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nome...@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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