Re: Bug#789256: cmus: Pulls in unwanted and potentially dangerous DECnet packages through libroar2
- To: Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>, 789256@bugs.debian.org, Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>, Patrick Matthäi <pmatthaei@debian.org>
- Cc: 789256@bugs.debian.org, roaraudio@packages.debian.org, "Stephan Jauernick" <info@stephan-jauernick.de>, dnprogs@packages.debian.org, "James Cowgill" <james410@cowgill.org.uk>, ron@debian.org, "John Paul Adrian Glaubitz" <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
- Subject: Re: Bug#789256: cmus: Pulls in unwanted and potentially dangerous DECnet packages through libroar2
- From: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
- Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2015 19:31:50 -0500
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20150621003150.20909.69711@auryn.jones.dk>
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Quoting Don Armstrong (2015-06-20 14:38:25)
> There's clearly a bug here, but even after reading this bug log, I've
> had to do research on my own to determine what that issue is.
>
> If the libroar2 maintainers which to keep decnet support, then someone
> should probably figure out how to circumvent waiting for the DECnet to
> settle when it isn't actually configured, and propose a patch to do
> that.
>
> Even just checking for the existence of dnet-common or similar would
> probably be enough.
As I understand it, these are the issues raised here:
a) libdnet is unmaintained and thus potentially dangerous to link
against
b) dnet-common commonly (or always by default?) cause whole system to
hang
I disagree that any of above are bugs in cmus.
- Jonas
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