Bug#1112383: libcryptui: unmaintained upstream; upstream repository is archived and read-only
Source: libcryptui
Severity: important
Tags: upstream wontfix
X-Debbugs-Cc: evolution@packages.debian.org, almanah@packages.debian.org, seahorse-nautilus@packages.debian.org, caja-seahorse@packages.debian.org
libcryptui's upstream git repository has been moved to
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/libcryptui and archived. This means
that it no longer accepts issue reports or merge requests, even if a
serious problem is found. This seems unwelcome for a cryptographic
component!
I think we should plan to remove libcryptui from forky.
The most significant user of libcryptui is evolution, which
Build-Depends on libcryptui-dev (but perhaps unnecessarily).
Notably, GNOME's seahorse package, also known as "Passwords and
Secrets", doesn't use libcryptui any more.
Other packages that still use libcryptui:
* almanah - Application to ease management of a personal diary
(already marked for autoremoval due to an unrelated RC bug)
* seahorse-nautilus - Nautilus extension for Seahorse integration
(which has itself been archived upstream)
* caja-seahorse - Caja extension to encrypt/decrypt OpenPGP files using GnuPG
(a fork of seahorse-nautilus, I think)
smcv
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