FS#59972 - [qt5-location] Don't build Gypsy geolocation plugin

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Balló György (City-busz) - Friday, 07 September 2018, 20:58 GMT
Last edited by Antonio Rojas (arojas) - Saturday, 08 September 2018, 08:57 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Please remove gypsy and gconf from makedepends/optdepends, and remove the gypsy package from the official repositories. Gypsy is last released in 2012, and no longer maintained by upstream. Fedora removed it from their repositories with this comment:

"gyspy has numerous security issues, is dead upstream, time to migrate. geoclue-2 implements most of the intended functionality"
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gypsy/blob/master/f/dead.package
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Closed by  Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Saturday, 08 September 2018, 08:57 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed

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