[Pkg-gridengine-devel] Bug#714661: Bug#714661: Bug#714661: gridengine and debian

[Dave Love]

Paul Gevers <elbrus at debian.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Just a very short response to a sentence I saw in your e-mail.
>
> On 06-11-13 18:01, Dave Love wrote:
>> There are some serious problems with the current packaging, including
>> security issues, apart from library dependencies.
>
> It would be great if the Debian bug tracker and the Debian security team
> were aware of these security issues, so that they could/would be
> addressed, even if the maintainers can't take care of it (for whatever
> reason).

I don't have very good experience with that.  (See my comments somewhere
in the tracker on the last NMU.)  However, part of the reason for
re-doing the packaging is to provide the scripts which actually allow it
to be configured in "secure" mode.

There don't appear to be any Debian developers to maintain it, but I've
basically done the work.