Debian Bug report logs - #396202
RM: raccess -- RoQA; obsolete, RC-buggy; abandoned upstream

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\)" <sam+deb@zoy.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: ships architecture-dependent files in /usr/share

Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:13:14 +0200

Package: raccess
Version: 0.7-2
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 9.1.1

   The following executables are shipped in /usr/share but are not
architecture-independent:

    /usr/share/raccess/exploits/rpcb
    /usr/share/raccess/exploits/rpcc
    /usr/share/raccess/exploits/lpda
    /usr/share/raccess/exploits/lpdb
    /usr/share/raccess/exploits/identda

   Moreover, if they are supposed to be used as signature or exploits,
maybe they should not be compiled for the host architecture but either
for x86 or for a variety of architectures.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (50, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.11
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Message #10 received at 392421@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>

To: 392421@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Angel Ramos <seamus@debian.org>, debian-qa@lists.debian.org

Subject: Can raccess be removed?

Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:09:04 +0200

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Hi,

I think that 'raccess' might better be removed from Debian, for the
following reasons:

* It's a vulnerability scanner, but the last upstream version is
  4.5 years old; that makes me doubtful about it's use;
* It has an RC bug filed against it;
* The description tells me that it's still developmental and far
  from the complete version.
* Upstream seems dead, homepage 404 and Googling offers nothing
  up-to-date.

Comments?


Thijs

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Message #15 received at 392421@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>

To: 392421@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Angel Ramos <seamus@debian.org>, debian-qa@lists.debian.org, control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Can raccess be removed?

Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:39:19 +0100

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clone 392421 -1
reassign -1 ftp.debian.org
severity -1 normal
retitle -1 RM: raccess -- RoQA; obsolete, RC-buggy, dead upstream
thanks!

On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 18:09 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> I think that 'raccess' might better be removed from Debian, for the
> following reasons:
> 
> * It's a vulnerability scanner, but the last upstream version is
>   4.5 years old; that makes me doubtful about its use;
> * It has an RC bug filed against it;
> * The description tells me that it's still developmental and far
>   from the complete version.
> * Upstream seems dead, homepage 404 and Googling offers nothing
>   up-to-date.

No objections received, reassigning to ftp-master.


Thijs

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Message #30 received at 396202-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Debian Archive Maintenance <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>

To: 396202-close@bugs.debian.org

Cc: raccess@packages.debian.org, raccess@packages.qa.debian.org

Subject: Bug#396202: fixed

Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 00:28:44 +0000

We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:

   raccess |      0.7-2 | source, alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc

Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag
database and may (or may not) still be in the pool; this is not a bug.
The package(s) will be physically removed automatically when no suite
references them (and in the case of source, when no binary references
it).  Please also remember that the changes have been done on the
master archive (ftp-master.debian.org) and will not propagate to any
mirrors (ftp.debian.org included) until the next cron.daily run at the
earliest.

Packages are never removed from testing by hand.  Testing tracks
unstable and will automatically remove packages which were removed
from unstable when removing them from testing causes no dependency
problems.

Bugs which have been reported against this package are not automatically
removed from the Bug Tracking System.  Please check all open bugs and
close them or re-assign them to another package if the removed package
was superseded by another one.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 396202@bugs.debian.org.

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