Bug 651342

Summary:	app-text/aiksaurus removal request
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michael Mair-Keimberger (iamnr3) <mmk>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	jstein
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Michael Mair-Keimberger (iamnr3) 2018-03-24 08:33:00 UTC

Hi,

Can we remove app-text/aiksaurus?

* fails to compile with format-security, bug 521124
* maintainer needed
* EAPI 2
* last release was 2005

Comment 1 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev

2018-03-24 14:19:06 UTC

it is still shipped in many Linux distributions
https://repology.org/metapackage/aiksaurus/versions

have the other distributions patches, or better sources, which we do not have?

Comment 2 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2018-03-30 11:46:17 UTC

it is also still needed by abiword, that is the reason other distributions are still shipping it