Bug#601300: O: pwsafe -- command line encrypted password database manager
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I intend to orphan the pwsafe package.
The program is quite old, has been updated since 2005 (!), probably has
lingering licensing issues around openssl and the GPL, may even have
lingering security issues around the openssl debacle from a few years
back (I've not been able to figure out clearly either way). These are
important issues but are not ones I have the time or inclination to fix
right now. If this package will stay in Debian, it should have a
maintainer who will.
Ultimately, I no longer use pwsafe (there are several other more
featureful programs in Debian that I do use) and I cannot take the time
to give this package the attention it deserves.
If someone else uses the package and wants to adopt it, please contact
me after changing this bug to an ITA and I will send you some private
email that will might useful for a new maintainer about a couple
unresolved issues which might not be fully reflected in BTS. Otherwise,
I'll recommended that this package be removed from the archive at some
point in the future.
The package description is:
pwsafe is a unix commandline program that manages encrypted password
databases.
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Features:
- Pure command-line operation if desired (good for remote access over ssh)
- or can interact with X11 selection & clipboard.
- Portable, endianess-clean, misaligned-access-free C++.
- Compatible with CounterPane's PasswordSafe Win32 program versions 2.x
and 1.x. See http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/
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