[arch-dev-public] Firestarter obsolete

[Eric Bélanger]

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