[Buildroot] [PATCH] Rename netkitbase and netkittelnet

arnaud aujon arnaud.aujon at gmail.com
Thu Oct 24 14:58:05 UTC 2013


Hi,

2013/10/24 Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>

> Both of these packages have been marked deprecated since almost a year
> (November 2013). See 442765fe3d8767956eb26d4bcbaa62ce1e1782ca and
> 5a457ff6cc3129af97f2fdcaa5f88bd5ff02b500.
>
> So many it's simpler better to remove them completely?
>
> Because what your patch is missing is that it's renaming the Config.in
> options for those two packages, but it's not adding the necessary
> compatibility informations in Config.in.legacy. And I don't think it's
> really worth doing that for packages that have been deprecated a year
> ago. What do you think?
>

I didn't notice that. I guess after 1 year the best thing would be to
remove it completely.
Moreover it looks like there is some security issues (
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-0911)
that haven't been fixed upstream (last version is from 2000 I think)
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