Bug#662968: RFS: shc/3.8.7-1

[Benoît Knecht <benoit.knecht@fsfe.org>]

Vibhav Pant wrote:
>   I am looking for a sponsor for my package "shc"
> 
>  * Package name    : shc
>    Version         : 3.8.7-1
>    Upstream Author : Francisco Rosales <frosal@fi.upm.es>
>  * URL             : http://www.datsi.fi.upm.es/~frosal/sources/
> [there is no such homepage for this program]
>  * License         : GPL-2
>    Section         : devel
> 
>   It builds those binary packages:
> 
>     shc   - Generic shell script compiler.

That short description is so misleading! shc is no compiler at all, but
merely an obfuscator; from the man page:

  shc itself is not a compiler such as cc, it rather encodes and encrypts
  a shell script and generates C source code with the added expiration
  capability. [...] shc's main purpose is to protect your shell scripts
  from modification or inspection. You can use it if you wish to
  distribute your scripts but don't want them to be easily readable by
  other people.

I find this purpose pointless and evil, and I don't think such software
should be in Debian. If it's going to be accepted anyway, at least give
it a proper description.

Cheers,

-- 
Benoît Knecht