[Pkg-security-team] Maintenance of aircrack-ng

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

Hi Mattia


>

>[ please teach your MUA to wrap lines at a decent width, unless you have
>to reason to do so, the formatting of huge lines is annoying to see ]


yep sorry!

>So no, Carlos can't be considered MIA, the last upload from him is from>not even a month ago, and mails from him in the BTS can be find for this
>month.


yep, we found an answer in the meanwhile :)
>I don't see any RC bug against aircrack-ng, but I trust you if you say
>that the package needs care.
>I suppose that that non-MIAness of the maintainer doesn't really block
>you from following the usual NMU procedure to fix whatever bug the
>current package has, as long as the usual proceder delined in devref is
>followed.


security needs more updates than other packages, security levels increases, 

security tools needs changes to adapt to latest technologies, and it got really
a ton of improvements, as you can see here
http://paste.debian.net/816111/

(IIRC I did a manual update in Backbox a while ago, just because users were needing
and requesting it)

>@Carlos:
>if you have lost interest in the package in question *please*, *please*
>orphan it!
>Having package with the maintainer set to somebody that can't (due to
>time issues) or don't want to maintain it is only a source of annoiance
>for 1) your user because they receive a package of a lower quality of
>what they deserve 2) your fellow developers because they have to go

>through huge hops to get fixes in.

thanks, seems not needed anymore!

cheers,

G.