hello what a pity when it gets removed. there was a very simple patch to fix the problem: see http://bugs.debian.org/400718
the package nor the software is too shabby to be supported. upstream was very fast fixing the issue, after they knew about it. did the debian security team contact links authors about this issue? upstream changelog Tue Nov 28 23:13:38 MET 2006 mikulas: Fixed severe security bug: '"' and ';' in smb:// url could be used for remote command execution. debian changelog links2 (2.1pre26-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream version. Reenable smb:// support, it got properly fixed by upstream. -- Gürkan Sengün <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:47:56 +0100 links2 (2.1pre25-2) unstable; urgency=high * Disable smb:// support, fixes CVE-2006-5925. -- Gürkan Sengün <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:58:31 +0100 martin, any reason you don't want links (version 0.x/1.x) not removed? because security team was able to fix this one. sad that stable users don't get a chance to try this wide variety of software because of this. i hope it doesn't get removed.. yours, gürkan