On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Eric Bélanger snowmaniscool@gmail.com wrote:

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 4:25 PM, tobias@justdreams.de wrote:

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Hi guys,

a user(Sven-Hendrik Haase) brought to my attention that firestarter has issues (memleaks). Well there are apparently some patches available somewhere .... but

• last release was Jan 29th, 2005 (yes that means 4 years)
• there seems no activity in the project
• it deals with iptables and the kernel (which has changed quite a bit over

the last 4 years :P ) and is somewhat crucial to system security

• in this state, I don't feel like fixing it(I don't maintain it anymore

anyway) but I do consider it a security issue

Proposal to fix: Let's get riddence of it.

Opinions?

-T

It has low usage (4%) anyway. No objections in removing it or moving it to unsupported.

+1 from me. Never used it myself.