Re: [gentoo-dev] Removal of rxvt

[Daniel Campbell <zlg@gentoo.org>]

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On 05/11/2017 08:57 AM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Rxvt is ancient. It's been replace by rxvt-unicode. Rxvt hasn't seen
> updates in years. Recently it's been the subject of a security
> vulnerability, and I suspect it's filled with other potential
> vulnerabilities. Rxvt has no upstream. I tried reaching out to the
> former upstream, and it's evident everybody has moved on and has no
> interest in further maintenance. It doesn't even have a Gentoo
> maintainer!
> 
> Given this, I'd like to remove rxvt from Gentoo, with the usual
> mask-for-30-days process.
> 
> Does anybody have any objections to me doing this? (I'll wait a week
> from now before taking any actions.)
> 
> Regards,
> Jason
> 

Sounds sane to me. It might be helpful to ask if anyone in gentoo-user
is interested in proxying, but as far as I know anyone who used rxvt
migrated to rxvt-unicode once it was stable.

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