Why is firestarter now hard-masked and stable? I don't see anything in the changelog explaining why this has been hard-masked. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
hawking@mars % grep -B 10 net-firewall/firestarter profiles/package.mask # Michael Sterrett <mr_bones_@gentoo.org> (30 May 2007) # masked for removal on 20070629 # Upstream is dead and there are several open bugs: # http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146620 # http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179792 # http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180104 # http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180105 # See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.firewalls.firestarter.user/1342 # for a thread on the mailing list regarding the state of things, including # mention of the problems with the newest netfilter code. net-firewall/firestarter Also have a look at: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_145735.xml
There is a lot of software out there that doesn't work properly and yet it is still in the tree. I don't see the problem of gentoo package maintainers just patching the problem. Also, it would be regrettable if this package was removed and there wasn't a package to replace it. I would like to know of another program that allows you to manipulate iptables through a gui.
Read the package.mask entry and relevant thread on gentoo-dev mailing list. Not a bug.
