Re: Bug#559134: ITP: shc -- a generic shell script compiler

[Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org>]

[Manoj Srivastava]
>         Having said that, I am not advocating blocking this package (nor
>  am I advocating accepting it), I am just commenting on the arguments
>  being presented here.

Indeed, the thing to do would probably be to provide both shc and an
equivalent decompiler - assuming of course that shc is largely a set of
reversible transforms, as I imagine it is.  That way nobody can be
deceived into thinking, when they use shc, that they are actually
hiding very much.
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