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and subject line Bug#846069: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #844240,
regarding Intent to not ship squirrelmail with stretch
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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
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Version: 2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package squirrelmail has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/846069
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.
This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
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