Re: List of long term FTBFS packages to be retired in August

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Dne 26. 07. 20 v 13:44 Miro Hrončok napsal(a):
> On 29. 06. 20 17:49, Vít Ondruch wrote:
>> Dne 29. 06. 20 v 17:21 Miro Hrončok napsal(a):
>>> js-jquery1             nodejs-sig, patches, vondruch   Fedora 30
>>> js-jquery2             vondruch                        Fedora 30
>>> js-sizzle              nodejs-sig, patches, vondruch   Fedora 30
>>>
>> I was ranting about js-jquery (and js-sizzle is dependency of js-jquery)
>> on this list already several times. I picked it up just to keep it alive
>> in whatever state, because bundling it everywhere won't make things
>> better. So is there anybody who would like to give it some love? Or
>> should I let the packages finally go and let everybody else to bundle
>> whatever they want?
>
> Since the packages are on their way to retirement, I've taken a look.
>
> 1) I see that most of the build dependencies of js-jquery1/js-jquery2
> are gone.
>
> 2) I see that all the FTBFS bugs are ASSIGNED without a single
> response about a plan to fix the problem. From your emails it seems
> the plan was always to "do nothing".
>
> 3) I see that both jqueries have several moderate CVEs open without a
> single response for months. From your "in whatever state" staement it
> seems the plan was to never fix those. The packages would need to be
> buildable in the first place in order to be able to fix them.
>
> Arguably, the benefit of having an unbundled dependency is mostly gone
> when the library is not maintained at all. It seems safer if other
> packages bundle and when they have a CVE open, the maintainers can
> evaluate the impact of the problem on their package. Even if 100
> packages bundle jquery and only 10 of them evaluate the impact of CVEs
> and/or fix the CVEs in their packages, the situation is better than now.


I think this is a bit optimistic POV. I think that in most of the
packages, there won't be even "bundled(jquery)" which would let the SRT
report the proper trackers. But I hope you are right and I am wrong :)


>
> So yes, please let the packages go.

I will.



Vít
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