Kiss svgalib goodbye?

Fabio Massimo Di Nitto fabbione at canonical.com
Mon Nov 29 00:58:46 CST 2004


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Matt Zimmerman wrote:
| There are only two packages in main which require svgalib: SDL and GGI.  I
| have uploads prepared which would remove svgalib support from both, and
| allow svgalib to pass into universe.
|
| There are much better solutions than svgalib available on modern systems
| (X and framebuffer), and svgalib applications must be setuid root, which
| frequently introduces security vulnerabilities.
|
| Any objections to uploading these packages and demoting svgalib to universe?
|

kill them all! ;)

Fabio

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