[arch-dev-public] dropping tcp_wrapper support

Stéphane Gaudreault stephane at archlinux.org
Wed Jul 13 09:58:31 EDT 2011


Le 13 juillet 2011 08:10:26 Dave Reisner a écrit :
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 12:55:51PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
> > On 13/07/11 12:27, Dave Reisner wrote:
> > >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?
> > 
> > For reference:
> > 
> > Dan's original email about this:
> > http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2010-September/01
> > 7872.html
> > 
> > and the follow-up a few months later:
> > http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2010-December/018
> > 754.html
> > 
> > Given the lack of strong opinion either way last time, I'd lean on
> > dropping the package just because it seems to have no upstream
> > development and all the patching that is required.  So just create a
> > rebuild list and get as many of those packages rebuilt without
> > tcp_wrappers and go from there.
> > 
> > Allan
> 
> and just to follow up, the todo list for this is:
> 
> http://www.archlinux.org/todo/86/
> 
> dave

No objection, but a comment. 

You started that discussion and created the todo list after only 10 hours. As 
we are not all in the same timezone, it is likely that some people could not 
express their opinion within such a short period. I would suggest to wait at 
least 24 hours before taking action.

Stéphane


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