Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-servers/boa

2022-12-02 Thread Peter Stuge
Alec Warner wrote: > Currently mgorny is the listed maintainer of boa. What if instead of a > bunch of CVEs he just decided he had better things to do with his > time. > He last-rites the package, giving a 90d deadline for the package to > find a new owner. > No one cares to maintain boa, so no

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-servers/boa

2022-12-02 Thread John Helmert III
On Fri, Dec 02, 2022 at 08:30:03PM +, Peter Stuge wrote: > John Helmert III wrote: > > > > There are multiple CVEs for it, is it really on us to discriminate > > > > between which CVEs are valid and which are not? > > > > > > Yes. > .. > > > > We can't possibly hope to do that accurately in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-servers/boa

2022-12-02 Thread Alec Warner
On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 12:30 PM Peter Stuge wrote: > > John Helmert III wrote: > > > > There are multiple CVEs for it, is it really on us to discriminate > > > > between which CVEs are valid and which are not? > > > > > > Yes. > .. > > > > We can't possibly hope to do that accurately in all

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-servers/boa

2022-12-02 Thread Peter Stuge
John Helmert III wrote: > > > There are multiple CVEs for it, is it really on us to discriminate > > > between which CVEs are valid and which are not? > > > > Yes. .. > > > We can't possibly hope to do that accurately in all cases. > > > > Some times it will be easy, other times less easy. .. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-servers/boa

2022-12-02 Thread John Helmert III
On Fri, Dec 02, 2022 at 06:29:28PM +, Peter Stuge wrote: > John Helmert III wrote: > > So much yapping on the mailing lists, and no response in the bug which > > triggered the last rites... > > Apologies if I responed in the wrong forum. I thought on list would > be good, why are those mails

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-servers/boa

2022-12-02 Thread Peter Stuge
John Helmert III wrote: > So much yapping on the mailing lists, and no response in the bug which > triggered the last rites... Apologies if I responed in the wrong forum. I thought on list would be good, why are those mails on the list if not? > So, Peter, do you use Boa? Not right now, but I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-servers/boa

2022-12-02 Thread John Helmert III
So much yapping on the mailing lists, and no response in the bug which triggered the last rites... So, Peter, do you use Boa? If you do, what niche does it fill that isn't filled by anything else? There are multiple CVEs for it, is it really on us to discriminate between which CVEs are valid and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-servers/boa

2022-12-02 Thread Matt Turner
On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 12:20 PM Peter Stuge wrote: > If you wanted to encourage me to become a Gentoo developer and (among > other things) improve the lastriting process then you missed the mark, > in fact your behavior consistently remains one strong reason for me > to *not* become a Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-servers/boa

2022-12-02 Thread Peter Stuge
Michał Górny wrote: > > Shouldn't this process work a lot better? > > Processes tend to work better when people are contributing towards > making the processes work better rather than complaining from their > comfy armchairs that they tend to confuse with thrones. LOL! Are you honestly arguing

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-servers/boa

2022-11-28 Thread Michał Górny
On Mon, 2022-11-28 at 07:45 +, Peter Stuge wrote: > Shouldn't this process work a lot better? Processes tend to work better when people are contributing towards making the processes work better rather than complaining from their comfy armchairs that they tend to confuse with thrones. --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-servers/boa

2022-11-27 Thread Peter Stuge
John Helmert III wrote: > # John Helmert III (2022-11-27) > # Unmaintained upstream, several unresolved public vulnerabilities, > # Removal in 30 days. Bug #882773. > www-servers/boa This is bogus, please revert. Who are you to declare unmaintained? It's a simple program so maybe it simply

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-servers/boa

2022-11-27 Thread John Helmert III
# John Helmert III (2022-11-27) # Unmaintained upstream, several unresolved public vulnerabilities, # Removal in 30 days. Bug #882773. www-servers/boa signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-servers/boa

2007-05-18 Thread Raúl Porcel
# Raúl Porcel armin76 at gentoo dot org (18 May 2007) # For treecleaners, bug 102174 # Pending removal 17 Jul 2007 www-servers/boa -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list