Package: pwsafe Version: 0.2.0-3 Severity: important
I was somewhat irritated to discover that Debian has removed pwsafe. As a user of pwsafe for several years, I've found pwsafe invaluable. Even more irritating was that the DBTS makes it far from obvious that there was any intention to drop pwsafe. I strongly disagree with the rationale for dropping pwsafe. Other applications may be more featureful, but for those who try to avoid flashy GUI interfaces where possible, or need to avoid them for other reasons, I'm not aware of anything that comes close to pwsafe's simplicity of use. Similarly, pwsafe may not have been updated in a while, but as far as I can tell, there's been no need to do so. The pwsafe Debian package doesn't even contain any changes against the original source, suggesting no major issues. Additionally, continuous development of a package is likely to lead to the introduction of bugs, which for a security-related package, is not a good thing. pwsafe doesn't appear to be an especially high-maintenance package, doesn't appear to have any known security issues, and from the perspective of a Debian user, removing it only has the effect of making Debian less useful. Additionally, I'd suggest that pwsafe's popcon score may not be blazing, but suggests that it is far from unused. Lastly, I'd like to offer my help in maintaining the package, if that would be of any help. I'd imagine maintaining a package that one cares about would be one of the primary reasons to become a Debian maintainer, but it seems like Debian makes it very difficult for someone who isn't already part of the Debian community to do this. Regards, Francis Russell -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.39.1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages pwsafe depends on: ii libc6 2.13-4 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.6.0-10 GCC support library ii libice6 2:1.0.7-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libncurses5 5.9-1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libreadline5 5.2-8 GNU readline and history libraries ii libsm6 2:1.2.0-1 X11 Session Management library ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8o-7 SSL shared libraries ii libstdc++6 4.6.0-10 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 2:1.4.3-1 X11 client-side library ii libxmu6 2:1.1.0-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library pwsafe recommends no packages. pwsafe suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
