[arch-dev-public] Firestarter obsolete

[Aaron Griffin]

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

+1 from me. Never used it myself.