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From: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort &lt;pochu@debian.org&gt;
To: Debian Bug Tracking System &lt;submit@bugs.debian.org&gt;
Subject: freeimage: dead upstream, open security issues
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Source: freeimage
Version: 3.18.0+ds2-11
Severity: serious
Tags: security
X-Debbugs-Cc: team@security.debian.org

Hi,

It looks like freeimage is dead upstream (last upstream release in 2018, upstream
maintainer email bounces[1]). With many open security issues[2], I believe freeimage
is not in a shape to be released in Debian, and should be removed.

This bug at RC severity should kick it out of testing for the time being, and if
nobody is willing to take over it and look at the security issues, it should
eventually be dropped from sid as well.

Cheers,
Emilio

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1082375
[2] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/freeimage
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