On Mon, November 28, 2016 13:56, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Sun, 13 Nov 2016 18:31:48 +0100 Thijs Kinkhorst <th...@debian.org> > wrote: >> 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. > > Squirrelmail is one of the blockers to php5 removal (See #846069). Please > comment on that bug about how we can keep squirrelmail, but still get rid > of php5 (personally, I don't see how).
If PHP 5 is gone I see no reason to keep squirrelmail in unstable in its current form. So we should remove it (as per #846069). Cheers, Thijs
