Maintainer has been unable to do anything with it since life happens and currently writing this email against medical advice to limit computer usuage to work only as I'm currently dealing with tendonitus. Please go ahead with any NMU necessary to clear existing bug reports.
Regards,
Jeremy
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 03:41:28PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 09:59:17PM +0100, Cl?ment Stenac wrote:
> > Here is a proposal for an updated description of gcipher
> >
> > --- gcipher-1.0.orig/debian/control 2004-12-04 21:36:53.000000000 +0100
> > +++ gcipher-1.0/debian/control 2004-12-04 21:47:45.000000000 +0100
> > @@ -8,7 +8,12 @@
> > Package: gcipher
> > Architecture: all
> > Depends: ${python:Depends}, python-gnome2, python-glade2
> > -Description: A simple encryption tool
> > - This is a simple encryption tool to work with home-grown encryption
> > - algorithms. It can run as either a GUI, a command-line application,
> > - or a network proxy.
> > +Description: A simple "encryption" tool
> > + This is a simple "encryption" tool to work with common simple encryption
> > + algorithms (Rot13, Cesar, Vigui?re, ...)
> > + .
> > + Gcipher does not provide any strong encryption and should not be used to
> > + encrypt any private data.
> > + .
> > + Gcipher can run as either a GUI, a command-line application, or a network
> > + proxy.
> >
> > Please apply or use another description.
>
> Since there's been no response by the maintainer to this bug yet, I've
> uploaded a patch almost identical to the above (with just a few spelling
> corrections) to the 3-day delayed incoming queue in
> gluck.debian.org:~tfheen/DELAYED/3-day/. I'd welcome a maintainer upload
> superseding this.
>
> The NMU patch is attached.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> diff -Nru /tmp/1Z1QConRKX/gcipher-1.0/debian/changelog
> /tmp/3mpZ80qBzO/gcipher-1.0/debian/changelog
> --- /tmp/1Z1QConRKX/gcipher-1.0/debian/changelog 2004-06-01
> 07:19:19.000000000 +0100
> +++ /tmp/3mpZ80qBzO/gcipher-1.0/debian/changelog 2005-02-09
> 15:32:47.000000000 +0000
> @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
> +gcipher (1.0-3.1) unstable; urgency=low
> +
> + * Non-maintainer upload.
> + * Improve description to make it clear that gcipher doesn't provide strong
> + encryption (thanks, Cl?ment Stenac; closes: #266707).
> +
> + -- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 9 Feb 2005 15:32:46 +0000
> +
> gcipher (1.0-3) unstable; urgency=low
>
> * Reverted back to ${python:Depends} in debian/control
> diff -Nru /tmp/1Z1QConRKX/gcipher-1.0/debian/control
> /tmp/3mpZ80qBzO/gcipher-1.0/debian/control
> --- /tmp/1Z1QConRKX/gcipher-1.0/debian/control 2004-06-01
> 07:25:46.000000000 +0100
> +++ /tmp/3mpZ80qBzO/gcipher-1.0/debian/control 2005-02-09
> 15:25:38.000000000 +0000
> @@ -8,7 +8,12 @@
> Package: gcipher
> Architecture: all
> Depends: ${python:Depends}, python-gnome2, python-glade2
> -Description: A simple encryption tool
> - This is a simple encryption tool to work with home-grown encryption
> - algorithms. It can run as either a GUI, a command-line application,
> - or a network proxy.
> +Description: A simple "encryption" tool
> + This is a simple "encryption" tool to work with common simple encryption
> + algorithms (ROT13, Caesar, Vigen?re, ...)
> + .
> + Gcipher does not provide any strong encryption and should not be used to
> + encrypt any private data.
> + .
> + Gcipher can run as either a GUI, a command-line application, or a network
> + proxy.
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