Adding the w3af maintainer to recipients. On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 09:55:50 +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote:
> Hi, > > > > Have you tested the reverse dependencies with the new > > > version (seems to be svn-workbench, svn-load, , ibid, > > There's no reply from w3af maintainer so I've investigated it and > there is not a problem with updating pysvn. w3af uses pysvn for update > only, and its feature shouldn't work in Debian. > > w3af needs pysvn to use auto-update feature, and it is not suitable for > Debian package binary. Debian w3af packages are installed into system > wide, not user's directory. So, if unprivilledged user would execute > update, w3af files would not be overwritten. > > > However, I've found this package needs to be patched, and also it's not > up-to-date upstream stable version (1.1) in testing/unstable > (=1.0-rc3svn3489-1) > (even experimental=1.0.0-1). Outdated program is not good for users (and > also maintainer/security team), but there are 250 w3af users (by popcon), > just removing package is not good for them. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > choices for w3af) > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 1. Not touch w3af > - easiest way > - needs simple patch to work with python2.6, at least > (Debian doesn't have python2.5 anymore, and its source says it > supports 2.6, not 2.7) > - outdated version (2 years ago), maybe not useful for users > 2. Just remove w3af from testing > - easy > - no reverse dependency > - users cannot use w3af since Wheezy > 3. update w3af > - violate basic freeze rule > (however, upstream 1.1 was released before freeze, 2011-11-10) > - need some work to update (I'll try) > - need some check if it works > > Any comments? > > -- > Hideki Yamane <henr...@debian.or.jp> > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/20120728095550.ab97ba1d8b906dd8912c8...@debian.or.jp >
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