From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PrksR-0005Ih-OU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:33:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 567D51C041; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:33:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AEA11C00D for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:32:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.105] (c-75-73-69-69.hsd1.mn.comcast.net [75.73.69.69]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: darkside) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9030F1B400F for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:32:54 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4D634A84.6010407@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:32:52 -0600 From: Jeremy Olexa User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20110128 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.7 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: fba027969a221b7fe9e7c108937bb0f4 The bugs are stacking up[1] and upstream only offers a paid version of pdflib-8[2]. It is my understanding that there is no way for us to package future versions and the bundled libs are vulnerable[3]. So, should it be removed? For more info, see the tracker bug for its removal[1], there are a number of rdeps that will require fixing[4]. [1]: https://bugs.gentoo.org/355971 [2]: http://www.pdflib.com/download/free-software/pdflib-lite-7/ [3]: https://bugs.gentoo.org/253263 [4]: http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/misc/rindex/media-libs/pdflib Thanks, -Jeremy