537914 – sys-libs/libsafe removal request

Bug 537914 - sys-libs/libsafe removal request

Summary: sys-libs/libsafe removal request

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it

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Whiteboard:	Pending removal: 2015-04-22
Keywords:	PMASKED

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Blocks:

Reported:	2015-01-26 20:38 UTC by Pacho Ramos
Modified:	2015-04-26 12:43 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2015-01-26 20:38:38 UTC

Fedora killed it long time ago as it's redundant with gcc FORTIFY_SOURCE and stack protector, also nothing needs it on Gentoo currently

Comment 1 Martin Mokrejš 2015-03-29 12:13:19 UTC

I used libsafe to report memory leaks. I don't think this overlaps with gcc FORTIFY_SOURCE.

It is a handy tool. Why do you mind there were no changes to it?

Comment 2 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2015-04-26 12:43:42 UTC

dropped