From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
To: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>,
Buildroot Mailing List <buildroot@buildroot.org>
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] package/mcrypt: drop package
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 23:58:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210819215814.GL27036@scaer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPi7W820rnjxXh4uRrnkiN+OuULThhcLoBiq3j-vDKBTJ3Zy_Q@mail.gmail.com>
Fabrice, All,
On 2021-08-19 23:21 +0200, Fabrice Fontaine spake thusly:
> Le jeu. 19 août 2021 à 23:05, Thomas Petazzoni
> <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com> a écrit :
> >
> > Hello Fabrice,
> >
> > On Thu, 5 Aug 2021 19:42:51 +0200
> > Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Drop mcrypt which is not maintained anymore (no release since 2008).
[--SNIP--]
> > Do we have a good reason to drop these packages? We have lots of
> > packages with no upstream activity, and we drop them only when there is
> > some particular issue. What prompted you to propose these packages for
> > removal ?
> Because it is a cryptographic package, here is an extract of
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mcrypt:
> "The last update to libmcrypt was in 2007, despite years of unmerged
> patches. These facts have led security experts to declare mcrypt
> abandonware and discourage its use in new development."
OK, with such explanations, that makes sense.
Can you please resubmit both patches with tese in the commit log?
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-05 17:42 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] package/mcrypt: drop package Fabrice Fontaine
2021-08-05 17:42 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] package/libmcrypt: " Fabrice Fontaine
2021-08-19 21:05 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] package/mcrypt: " Thomas Petazzoni
2021-08-19 21:21 ` Fabrice Fontaine
2021-08-19 21:58 ` Yann E. MORIN [this message]
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