Hi, I stumbled on this by luck on https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/cruft , was not CC'd. quite a surprise.
It's only the cruft binary half that should/would be removed, the cruft-common will live on, being used by cruft-ng. I could also simply copy the files from one repo to the other; I'll post on debian-devel to see what is best. So, not so fast please :-) Greetings, Alexandre Detiste