Re: Bug#1109697: ITP: liboqs -- library for quantum-safe cryptographic algorithms
On 2025-07-23 Hector Oron <zumbi@debian.org> wrote:
> El mié, 23 jul 2025 a las 6:40, Andreas Metzler (<ametzler@bebt.de>) escribió:
>> On 2025-07-22 Hector Oron Martinez <zumbi@debian.org> wrote:
>>> I would like to provide Quantum Safe algorithms for Debian usage and
>>> form a team of people that works enabling this in the project.
>> liboqs already once was part of Debian/sid and was removed later.
>> One of the major reasons was that upstream did not want to see liboqs
>> shipped in a stable release (See
>> https://github.com/orgs/open-quantum-safe/discussions/1625 )
> The documented reason for removal from unstable was a FTBFS
> https://bugs.debian.org/1100144
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Hello,
Yes. liboqs ended up being unmaintained, lagging multiple upstream
versions behind. I pondered adopting/rescueing it but refrained from
doing so when I got the impression this might probably never be a
candidate for Debian stable, i.e. it should always have lived in
experimental instead of sid.
cu Andreas
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