[Secure-testing-team] Package wml contains yet another ancient embedded code copy of txt2html

Michael Gilbert michael.s.gilbert at gmail.com
Sun Apr 4 20:36:19 UTC 2010


On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 20:26:00 +0200 Axel Beckert wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I just noticed that WML contains yet another embedded code copy which
> is not listed at
> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/secure-testing/data/embedded-code-copies?op=file
> 
> The wml source package currently contains and uses txt2html 1.28
> (dated 2000/05/22 23:44:58) as published as last version by its
> original author. He gave the project away and it's nowadays hosted at
> SourceForge. Debian's txt2html package version 2.51 is probably from
> there.

added.

> JFTR: As I may have already mentioned, the next upload of wml (I'm
> adopting the package currently) will no more use the embedded code
> copy of libgd2 as well as removing all unused embedded code copies
> from the source package by repackaging.
> 
> If the newer txt2html version doesn't break wml, I'll probably remove
> that embedded code copies from the wml source package, too.

great, thanks for fixing these embeds!

mike



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