Package: wnpp Severity: normal The current maintainer of mpack, Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>, has orphaned this package. Quoting Richard: > mpack was important back when mail clients didn't have builtin mime > handling. These days it's primarily used as a command-line > alternative to the more interactive mail clients. It has two main > functions, mime decoding and mime encoding. For decoding, I think > uudeview is clearly superior. For encoding, there are some scripts > based on the perl MIME libraries. Those aren't clearly superior, but > mpack code is *ancient* and getting creaky. I think it needs a > thorough security review too. (By the way, I've always gotten more > questions about mpack from people trying to get it to work on > Solaris than from Debian users :) If you want to be the new maintainer, please take it -- see http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/index.html#howto-o for detailed instructions how to adopt a package properly. Some information about this package: Package: mpack Binary: mpack Version: 1.6-1 Priority: standard Section: mail Maintainer: Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> Architecture: any Standards-Version: 3.6.0 Format: 1.0 Directory: pool/main/m/mpack Files: 2a7f5bc01ed4b22311ca0006d3b96ac2 703 mpack_1.6-1.dsc a70fa5afa76539a9afb70b9d81568fe8 179850 mpack_1.6.orig.tar.gz 2f68ad47d1cfc6ccde4df69e5e170d9e 4444 mpack_1.6-1.diff.gz Package: mpack Priority: standard Section: mail Installed-Size: 124 Maintainer: Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> Architecture: amd64 Version: 1.6-1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4) Suggests: mail-transport-agent, inewsinn | inews Filename: pool/main/m/mpack/mpack_1.6-1_amd64.deb Size: 39010 MD5sum: 2e07c413f8931e39b6a7cac9ad32e78f Description: tools for encoding/decoding MIME messages Mpack and munpack are utilities for encoding and decoding (respectively) binary files in MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) format mail messages. For compatibility with older forms of transferring binary files, the munpack program can also decode messages in split-uuencoded format. . Instead of munpack, the package maintainer recommends the more versatile package uudeview. Christoph -- cb@df7cb.de | http://www.df7cb.de/
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