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Re: Proposal to remove dnlib, dsniff and inetsim from Debian



Hello Team!!

El vie, 14 nov 2025 a la(s) 12:35 p.m., Skyper (skyper@proton.thc.org) escribió:
Hello,

I've pushed an update today that removes the dependency on BerkeleyDB (unless --with-berkelydb is specified).

Dug (the original author) is happy to move the official URL to the GH repo.

Build instructions:
./configure
make dsniff

I can maintain this 'upstream' but hope that somebody else can package it for Debian (Sven? Carlos?).

regards,

skyper


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If no one else is currently working on it, I’d be glad to take over maintenance.
 
On Thursday, 6 November 2025 at 17:29, Sven Geuer <sge@debian.org> wrote:

> Hi Carlos,
>

> On Thu, 2025-11-06 at 09:08 -0300, Carlos Henrique Lima Melara wrote:
>

> > Hi Sven,
> >

> > On Tue, Nov 04, 2025 at 05:47:08PM +0100, Sven Geuer wrote:
> >

> > > I propose to request removal of the following packages from the
> > > archive:
> > >

> > > dnlib   for being RC-buggy and not needed by any other package [1]
> >

> > Yeah, I think this one has to go.
>

>

> Cool!
>

> > > dsniff  for blocking removal of db5.3 [2]
> >

> > There is a fork [1] that might be worth checking out. I'll take a look
> > when I can.
>

>

> Thanks for digging up this one. Unfortunately it still relies on
> Berkeley DB, see
> https://github.com/hackerschoice/dsniff/blob/main/configure.ac#L97 and
> https://github.com/hackerschoice/dsniff/blob/main/record.c.
>

> > > inetsim for being RC-buggy due to lacking systemd unit [3]
> >

> > I'm starting to do Q&A on this one, probably we can save it.
>

>

> If someone is willing to implement the systemd unit, that'd be awesome.
>

> > > I intend to request removal on behalf of the team unless a team member
> > > testifies intent to fix the bugs listed below within a four week's
> > > time.
> >

> > On my side, dnlib should go away, but I think the other 2 can be saved,
> > I'll take a look and give some love to them.
> >

> > Thanks for caring and sending a mail to the list!
> >

> > Cheers,
> > Charles
>

>

> Sven
>

> > [1] https://github.com/hackerschoice/dsniff
>

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