severity 540556 important thanks On 11/08/09 at 11:49 +0100, James Westby wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Package: ssss > > Version: 0.5-2 > > Severity: serious > > User: debian...@lists.debian.org > > Usertags: proposed-removal > > > > Hi James, > > > > While reviewing some packages, your package came up as a possible > > candidate for removal from Debian, because: > > > > * No upload since 2006 > > No changes upstream since 2006, no bugs filed to fix. > > > * Low popcon > > * Better (at least, more used) alternative available: libgfshare-bin > > That's true. > > I'm not particularly attached to the package, but I'm not sure about > removing it. Allow me to ponder it for a while.
A strong point in favor of removing it is that we should not mislead users to software when a better alternative exists. Are there reasons/use cases where ssss would be better than libgfshare-bin? However, for this particular package, it might make sense to keep providing it for a while, since removing it might cause users to lose the tool to recover their data. Unless ssss-"encrypted" data is "decryptable" with libgfshare-bin? > I'm happy to have the package fall out of testing while I decide though, > so I'm leaving the bug as it is. That's not needed ; reducing severity. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: lu...@nussbaum.fr GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
