On Thu, 05 Oct 2023 12:37:46 +0000 Christian Buhtz <c.bu...@posteo.jp> wrote:
> There is a bug ticket at upstream summarizing some of the information > > https://github.com/vgough/encfs/issues/314 > > As member of upstream maintenance team for "Back In Time" > (https://github.com/bit-team/backintime) currently depending on EncFS, I try > to > find out how to deal with the problem. I also try to find out how big the > problem really is. > > Debian seems to keep EncFS. That indicates to me that the problem can not be > so > big. > As upstream maintainer of Back In Time I'm unsure how to evaluate the > situation. We do think about to remove EncFS because of the security issues. Just because of my lazyness [TM] and because it has not shown critical integration issues yet. Upstream has declared it EOL some months ago, and I will probably move the package to oldlibs and change the old description into a warning. For details and alternatives, see: https://github.com/vgough/encfs?tab=readme-ov-file#status Best regards, Eduard. -- <pasc> man <pasc> the AMD64 camp is not helped by the list of people supporting it <pasc> when nerode is on your side, you know you're doing something wrong
