Bug 679566

Summary:	mail-filter/policyd-1.82-r1 : massively outdated
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Phil Stracchino (Unix Ronin) <phils>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Phil Stracchino (Unix Ronin) 2019-03-06 01:46:00 UTC

In brief:  v1.82 of policyd is MASSIVELY outdated and its README file states that it has never been tested against a MySQL release newer than 4.x.  That was probably over 20 years ago.  The listed upstream site, http://policyd.sf.net/, now redirects to https://wiki.policyd.org/documentation, which appears to indicate that the current release is v2.0.14, and that *that* release dates from 2013.

On the basis of this and a quick look at the database schemas, this package is at best hopelessly antiquated, at worst possibly actively harmful, probably completely incompatible with any remotely supported MySQL branch, and should be either rebased on a current version, or masked.

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2019-03-06 09:46:34 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 231568 ***