[OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Heads-Up: Obsoletion of 39 old packages

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 1/9/24 07:24, Marcel Telka wrote:
> All of them are:
> - very old - they are more than 10 years old
> - not maintained - we have no knowledge how to build them (there are no
>    build recipes for them in oi-userland)

A fair number of them are actually impossible for you to maintain as we
never released the sources for them (things like the Solaris CDE & Motif
packages), and are likely just repackaging of the redistributable binaries
from OpenSolaris, complete with the bugs and security holes they had back
in 2010.

A few are open source - for instance, I could point you to the sources for
x11/network/x11-network-proxies - but no one uses that in a world where
ssh X11-Forwarding is prevalent, which is why I removed that package from
Solaris and declared the upstream sources unmaintained and suggested that
distros remove them.

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         -Alan Coopersmith-                 alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
          Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris