[SRM] (PRSC) Possible removal of tsclient from stable

[Josselin Mouette]

Le samedi 26 février 2011 à 18:06 +0000, Adam D. Barratt a écrit : 
> On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 22:57 +0000, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
> > tsclient was removed from unstable recently: it has two CVE reports pending
> > and no upstream. The rationale was that a suitable replacement, remmina, is
> > in the archive.
> > 
> > Since remmina is also in stable, I propose to remove tsclient from stable
> > too, which gets these security problems out of the way. Before filing a
> > removal bug, I'd like opinions from SRM and the package maintainers.
> 
> The timing of the removal is a little unfortunate, given that it was
> originally suggested 18 months ago and the bug report (#547314)
> indicates that it was planned to be processed last August.  Although
> it's a leaf package, it does have non-neglible popcon ("recent" count
> over 800).
> 
> GNOME maintainers - any thoughts?

TTBOMK, no other remote desktop client has the amount of functionality
tsclient provides, so that explains the high popcon.

If it’s possible security-wise, I think it would be better to keep it in
stable.

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