Package: squirrelmail Severity: serious SquirrelMail has been missing from Stretch for a while now and I intend to leave it that way. This bug is to document this explicit choice (and room for any concerns).
Upstream (of which I'm, at least on paper) part, has not made any new release of SquirrelMail since 2011. There is some activity in commits being done, but these do not result in releases. I've tried to work around this temporarily by packaging a snapshot of upstream svn, but I'm not happy with that since this is an arbitrary point in development and not a clear and tested release which we should ship and support for years. Popcon for squirrelmail is significant but shows a steady decline since 2010. Alternatives are availbale. There's the competing product roundcube which is actively maintained in Debian and shows a steady popcon increase. Another alternative is to install SquirrelMail from source which is very easy and makes it easier to e.g. keep up with commits or newer snapshots. The added value of a Debian package for squirrelmail is hence not immense in my opinion. Of course this is not to pass any judgement value or to try to discourage others from working on this package. I welcome any thoughts in this bug report, or interest in putting the work into a sustainable Debian package of squirrelmail. Cheers, Thijs
