Proposal for dropping some add-ons

["Peter Müller" <peter.mueller@ipfire.org>]

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Hello development folks,

while waiting for ${things} to finish here, I went through the Pakfire add-on list
and came across some packages which - as far as I know - ...

(a) ... are not regularly maintained by a member of the IPFire development team
(b) ... do not seem to be frequently installed by our users
(c) ... should not run on a firewall for security purposes, anyway

Among these are:

- Asterisk (13.18.5, upstream is currently on 18.0.0)
- Icinga (1.11.4, upstream is currently on ~ 1.14.2 and 2.x.y, which comes with a bunch of
          dependencies such as a database, while Icinga 1.x was more or less a standalone
          system)
- libsrtp (1.5.4, upstream is currently on 2.3.0)
- OpenLDAP (2.4.49, upstream is currently on 2.4.55)
- SANE (1.0.28, upstream is currently on 1.0.31, this should not be too hard, but I am not
        aware of IPFire users needing this)
- SquidClamAV (since the overwhelming majority of web traffic is encrypted by now, I
               guess it makes little sense to ship this add-on anymore. Upstream seems
               to be unmaintained - most people are doing this via ICAP those days -,
               and this also arises the question why we need ClamAV anymore)
- sslh (1.7a, upstream is currently on 1.21c)
- transmission (2.94, upstream is currently on 3.00, but I do not observe a broader
                user group for this)

Are we able to drop those add-ons entirely? If yes, I will submit patches to do so. :-)

Thanks, and best regards,
Peter Müller