To add my two cents..
Since it's an important package, maybe it's worth seeing if someone can whip up a patch if there isn't already.
Also worth pointing out that lilo is without an upstream maintainer as of recently.
Cheers,
chillfan
On Tuesday, May 24, 2016 3:08 PM, Irrwahn <irrwahn@???> wrote:
> To the Devs in charge, and to whom it may concern.
>
> I just filed an issue against the Devuan slim package,
> requesting its removal from future Devuan releases.
>
> Full quote below signature.
>
> Regards
> Urban
>
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>
>
> Request for Removal of slim package from Devuan
>
> I hereby request that the slim package, containing the SLiM
> Simple Login Manager, be removed from future releases of Devuan,
> at least from the Jessie and testing suites. It may have its place
> in unstable for the time being.
>
> The reasoning that leads to this appeal is as follows:
>
> 1. It has no upstream.
> The project has evidently been abandoned, the homepage was
> taken off the web, leaving behind a stale github mirror that
> as of today carries only a README file dated from 2016-04-12,
> containing the following information, verbatim quote:
> "Note: This repository was used as backup source and is no
> longer maintained." [1]
>
> 2. SLiM has various apparent issues, notably:
> * not playing nice with X session managers
> * being unable to preserve the last chosen session between logins
> * it is a nuisance to provide user support for
>
> 3. It has already been removed from Debian testing and unstable (sic!).
> There is reason to suspect it would have been removed from Debian 8,
> were it not for the early Jessie freeze on 2014-11-05.
>
> 4. The Devuan package appears orphaned, the code has not been touched
> for about a year. Considering its upstream is no longer maintained
> either, the package might impose a security risk not tenable for a
> stable release.
>
> [1] Cf. https://github.com/data-modul/slim
>
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