Kiss svgalib goodbye?
Matt Zimmerman
mdz at canonical.com
Mon Nov 29 15:03:37 CST 2004
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 06:06:16PM -0800, 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?
I've uploaded libggi and libsdl1.2 with the changes.
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- mdz
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