Bug#689854: RFA: pmount -- mount removable devices as normal user
Vincent Fourmond <fourmond@debian.org> writes:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: normal
>
> I request an adopter for the pmount package.
>
> I still use pmount from time to time, but I'm not able to invest
> energy in it for the time being, so it's better not to pretend I'm
> still maintaining it. I'm the current upstream maintainer too, so the
> adopter will have to take care of upstream too.
>
> I'd be interested in team maintenance should the adopter wish to go
> that way.
>
> The package description is:
> pmount is a wrapper around the standard mount program which permits normal
> users to mount removable devices without a matching /etc/fstab entry. This
> provides a robust basis for automounting frameworks like GNOME's Utopia
> project and confines the amount of code that runs as root to a minimum.
> .
> If a LUKS capable cryptsetup package is installed, pmount is able to
> transparently mount encrypted volumes.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Vincent
I'm still using pmount heavily and will not switch to other solutions in
the foreseeable future so I'm interested to join the maintenance of this
package and the upstream.
Kanru
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