On 2025-07-23 Hector Oron <zu...@debian.org> wrote: > El mié, 23 jul 2025 a las 6:40, Andreas Metzler (<ametz...@bebt.de>) escribió:
>> On 2025-07-22 Hector Oron Martinez <zu...@debian.org> wrote: >>> I would like to provide Quantum Safe algorithms for Debian usage and >>> form a team of people that works enabling this in the project. >> liboqs already once was part of Debian/sid and was removed later. >> One of the major reasons was that upstream did not want to see liboqs >> shipped in a stable release (See >> https://github.com/orgs/open-quantum-safe/discussions/1625 ) > The documented reason for removal from unstable was a FTBFS > https://bugs.debian.org/1100144 [...] Hello, Yes. liboqs ended up being unmaintained, lagging multiple upstream versions behind. I pondered adopting/rescueing it but refrained from doing so when I got the impression this might probably never be a candidate for Debian stable, i.e. it should always have lived in experimental instead of sid. cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'
