Re: Orphaning Unbuildable Packages (fpm)

["Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists" <tpo2@sourcepole.ch>]

On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Michael Stone wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 05:12:27PM +0200, Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists wrote:
> >I'll gladly use a functionally equal/superior alternative. Mind to
> >propose/write one?
>
> A buggy piece of security software? No, thanks, there's enough of that
> already.

That's a very intelligent decision.

Now back to the question:

Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Michael Stone wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 04:28:47PM +1000, Brian May wrote:
> > > Just to clarify, fpm is still useful, and in fact I use it on my
> > > woody systems. Not sure yet what I will do post-woody...
> > >
> > > FPM is badly written[1] and buggy, and I don't have time to become
> >
> > Don't you wonder even a little about using a program with the dual
> > description of "badly written and buggy" but whose stated purpose is
> > to securely store passwords?
>
> I'll gladly use a functionally equal/superior alternative. Mind to
> propose/write one?

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