[arch-dev-public] dropping tcp_wrapper support

[Dave Reisner]

I'd like to pick up something Dan proposed about a year ago, which is
dropping support for tcp_wrappers. Its last official upstream release
was 1997, and we currently add 10 patches to it from 3 different distros
in order to make it compile, fix bugs, and add features (ipv6). We also
add in an odd default of ALL: ALL in the config file, meaning that the
first thing most people do on a new arch system is add a line to
/etc/hosts.allow along the lines of 'sshd: ALL' (or just delete the
blanket deny. To my knowledge, there isn't anything tcp_wrappers does
that iptables can't do more eloquently, and without the need to be
linked against an external library.

Therefore, I'd like to propose that we just dump this. The rebuild list
would be small, at 20 packages:

archboot
dante
esound
exim
gdm
inetutils
libmysqlclient
mailutils
net-snmp
nfs-utils
openldap
openssh
quota-tools
rrdtool
socat
stunnel
syslog-ng
tftp-hpa
vsftpd
xinetd

Is there any pressing reason to hang onto this aging library?

Regards,
Dave