Hi all, I wanted to ask you about your opinion regarding fireflier removal. I personally have been main upstream developer and debian maintainer of fireflier. Fireflier is a tool for interactive firewall administration.
As I meanwhile don't have any time to spend on my former project and nobody else seems eager to take up where I left, I finally consider to ask for removal of this package. Popcon tells me: http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=fireflier fireflier-server 36 Installed, 8 Votes fireflier-client-gtk 45 Installed, 7 Votes fireflier-client-qt 15 Installed, 5 Votes fireflier-client-kde 54 Installed, 12 Votes The project has been dead for more than a year now. Anyways, apart from http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=433817, which I can easily solve by removing fireflier-client-gtk, there are no known problems. Should I ask for removal of it? Especially as orphaning it would mean a dead package where no upstream exists either. There has been a security problem recently, which I corrected (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=431332) If someone has the old version installed, and we remove fireflier from the archives too early, then he might end up with the old version when he doesn't update too often (thinking of all the testing/unstable users). If I would remove fireflier, what would be the best way to handle this issue ? greetings, Martin
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