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Re: [opensuse-factory] [RFC] Drop glib/gtk/gnome 1.x stack
- From: Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 13:24:01 +0100
- Message-id: <20100107132401.468a6b1c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Vincent Untz wrote:
We still have even older toolkits like motif and xaw3d. Gtk1 was
once very popular, there are probably 3rd party tools out there that
use it¹.
Well, what kind of security issues do you expect? Some integer
overflows in gdk_pixbuf maybe. Nothing that would be hard nor
critical to fix I suppose.
cu
Ludwig
[1] Wasn't there some Deutsche Telekom Phone Book CD that had a gtk
app on it? I can't remember exactly.
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For a while, I've been wondering why we still have glib 1.x and gtk 1.x
(as well as some other part of the GNOME 1.x stack). So today I looked
at this closely, and I think we can work towards removing those
packages.
We still have even older toolkits like motif and xaw3d. Gtk1 was
once very popular, there are probably 3rd party tools out there that
use it¹.
Why should we remove those libraries? Well, they're not maintained
upstream, and from a security point of view, this can be quite bad.
Well, what kind of security issues do you expect? Some integer
overflows in gdk_pixbuf maybe. Nothing that would be hard nor
critical to fix I suppose.
cu
Ludwig
[1] Wasn't there some Deutsche Telekom Phone Book CD that had a gtk
app on it? I can't remember exactly.
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(o_ Ludwig Nussel
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