bitchx EOLed in Slackware

This is a notice that bitchx, an IRC client based on ircii-EPIC4, has been
removed from Slackware -current and will not be part of future Slackware
releases. Security issues and bugs have been reported, but upstream
work seems to have stalled leaving bitchx in a state where there are
known problems without official (or in some cases any) fixes.

The most secure course of action is to remove bitchx from the system and
switch to using a supported IRC client.

We have not compiled a complete list of open issues in BitchX, but here are
a few that we know about:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-3360
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4584
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5839

Package removal instructions:

Remove the package as root:
> removepkg bitchx

Some admins may also want to add a symlink to another console IRC client
such as irssi to help users migrate:

cd /usr/bin
ln -sf irssi BitchX