Re: removal of sdm source package
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Hi Osamu and release team,
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:05:16PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
>On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 08:01:49PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:19:44PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
>> >As you will see in BTS #449973, upstream states:
>> >
>> >> without some GUI dialog implementation, it's nearly useless. so
>> >> other than sentimental attachment, i don't see much point for it
>> >> to remain in debian...
>> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=449973
>> > (.... this package depends on removed xdialog package)
>> >
>> >This sdm source package also need to be removed.
>> >There is ldm which sdm's original upstream maintain and works.
>>
>> I kept quiet during your conversation with upstream. That does not
>> mean that I agree with upstream.
>>
>> Could we please discuss this properly first?
>
>Please.
>
>What is your plan and thought? Please let us know.
My plan is to keep the package alive. I dislike its successor by same
author, ldm, due to its coding style - e.g. hardcoding ssh client
options inside a tiny C program.
I am right now preparing a new packaging release fixing all bugs against
the package, including removing the watch file, acknowledging that
upstream project is dead.
>(I did not see you have followed up any open bug reports on this
>package. Your last upload of this package is in 2006. This is some
>package which claims to help security and this does not look nice
>situation and attracted my attention.)
Please note that none of the bugreports are security-related.
Kind regards,
- Jonas
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