Bug#694093: RM: bcrypt/1.1-6

[Kevin Coyner <kcoyner@debian.org>]

I'm supportive of removing the project at this point.  I presently do not have the time to address all of the code changes needed throughout the package and upstream seems inactive.  I have stumbled upon a fork of the code that does address some of the memory problems, but does not yet address the reading of an entire file at once into memory rather than streaming. So until that is addressed, I believe bcrypt should be removed.

Thanks,

Kevin

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Margarita Manterola <marga@debian.org> wrote:

Hola Adam D. Barratt!

> On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 20:55 +0000, Margarita Manterola wrote:
> > bcrypt is a tool to encrypt files using the blowfish algorithm.  It's quite
> > new and after spending a couple of hours with the code, I can say that it's
>  ^^^
> s/new/old/, maybe? :-)
>
> [2004-01-19] Accepted 1.1-2 in unstable (low) (Samuele Giovanni Tonon)
> [...]
> [2009-11-01] bcrypt 1.1-6 MIGRATED to testing (Britney)

Wow.  I obviously didn't check the dates.  By looking at the code I assumed
it was new and immature.

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Regards,
Marga

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