IT's time to remove the Solaris 8 packages

[Ben Walton]

Kill them with fire. Arguably Solaris 9 is in them same boat at this
point...

Are there any remaining packages built for Solaris 8 that are in the
dependency tree for modern systems?

Thanks
-Ben

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014, 23:18 Juraj Lutter <wilbury at opencsw.org> wrote:

> On 12/03/14 23:09, Laurent Blume wrote:
> > People,
> >
> > There's another guy on IRC coming to ask for S8 binaries. I think it
> > is more than time to remove them from the archive.
> >
> > I have nothing against him, he asked nicely, But nevertheless, they
> > must go.
> >
> > At this point, they are more a liability than anything else. All the
> > famous vulnerabilities are there, HEARTBLEED, SHELLSHOCK, POODLE, and
> > those who've not done the headlines.
> >
> > The people who come asking for them are following a pattern: they're
> > obviously not experimented, and they clearly are not able to assess
> > the risks, and *never* in a position to take decision.
> >
> > Then, their employers follow a similar pattern: they're cheapskates,
> > who want to get as much money as possible from obsolete systems with
> > no investment in time nor money. They willingly put their customers
> > are risk because of their greed.
> >
> > And lastly, there's an existing alternative, there's SunFreeware,
> > which, from a quick look, has much more recent packages.
> >
> > So frankly, I think we're doing a disservice to everybody by keeping
> > those old files online. They should be removed. If a company is
> > motivated to revive it and provides resources for it, welcome to it.
> > But those files as they stand are just used as an excuse to avoid
> > doing that.
> >
>
>
> I only can aggree with Laurent.
>
> --
> Juraj Lutter <wilbury at opencsw.org>
>
>
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