Removal of ircii-pana

[Stephan Rügamer]

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to request the removal of the ircii-pana (aka bitchx) package.

Reasons:

1. Upstream seams to be dead
2. Right now 3 CVEs
3. More exploits will be determined in the future (imho).

I filed a removal request against debian...link is attached to this bug, too.

Regards,

\sh

[Emmet Hikory (persia)]

The removal request seems sane. Lots of alternatives (although the scripting interfaces differ), and lack of upstream support to fix security issues seems to not be a package we'd like to support.

If a specific package is required for Obsoleted-By: the consensus appears to be with irssi.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Will remove the following packages from hardy:

    bitchx | 1:1.1-4ubuntu4 | amd64, hppa, i386, ia64, lpia, powerpc, sparc
bitchx-dev | 1:1.1-4ubuntu4 | amd64, hppa, i386, ia64, lpia, powerpc, sparc
bitchx-gtk | 1:1.1-4ubuntu4 | amd64, hppa, i386, ia64, lpia, powerpc, sparc
bitchx-ssl | 1:1.1-4ubuntu4 | amd64, hppa, i386, ia64, lpia, powerpc, sparc
ircii-pana | 1:1.1-4ubuntu4 | source

------------------- Reason -------------------
(pitti) unmaintained, vulnerable, removed in Debian
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