On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 02:00:47AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 01:30:52AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > > I can only find it currently in 2 packages in Debian--prozilla and elinks. > > The others that used it in the past (libcurl, wget?) likely rewrote the > > code since it was obsolete anyway. Why not just take the code from one of > > those if it's really a concern? > > Why not? I see no reason why not; please, be my guest.
Because I'm not the one that sees a major legal problem with this bit of code. :) > In particular, prozilla seems a particularly silly piece of software to jump > to the defense of, since it has RC security holes and doesn't look like it's > coming anywhere close to shipping with sarge. OK, but elinks also contains this file and otherwise *is* in shape for sarge. Also, I didn't do an exhaustive search--other packages may use it as well. It seems it is (or was) pretty popular... -- Society is never going to make any progress until we all learn to pretend to like each other.