Re: Removing outguess

[Eriberto <eriberto@eriberto.pro.br>]

Em ter., 9 de set. de 2025 às 13:42, Michael Prokop <mika@debian.org> escreveu:
>
> Hi Eriberto,
>
> * Eriberto Mota [Tue Sep 09, 2025 at 01:17:46PM -0300]:
>
> > OutGuess is a very old and problematic tool. It embeds an outdated version
> > of libjpeg (6b, released in 1998), which is extremely difficult to update
> > or replace. Currently, we are facing multiple issues that result in FTBFS.
> >
> > I intend to request the removal of this package from Debian. Does anyone have
> > any objections?
>
> Sounds like a good idea, given that it's also unmaintained upstream
> - no objections from my side, thanks for taking care.

Hi mika!

Thanks for your comments.

> Are we aware of any good replacements, that we could point our users to?

No, because each steganography program implements its own algorithm.
This code is outdated, and I believe it's rarely used nowadays.

Cheers,

Eriberto