Bug#855173: RFP: keepassxc -- Community fork of KeePassX, a free and open-source cross-platform password manager.
Matt,
Thank you very much for your quick reply.
If you need to get directly in contact with us or have any further
questions beyond this thread here, feel free to shoot us an email. You
can also use our issue tracker on GitHub
https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc.
Thanks a lot!
Janek
On 02/14/2017 11:51 PM, Matt Jones wrote:
> I am not a maintainer or developer but an active user if debain and
> keepass. I would be willing to take this in depending on timeframe. I
> have time starting next week to devote to this. I have built packages in
> the past so this is not a huge issue for me
>
> On Feb 14, 2017 5:45 PM, "KeePassXC Team" <team@keepassxc.org
> <mailto:team@keepassxc.org>> wrote:
>
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * Package name : keepassxc
> Version : 2.1.1
> Upstream Author : KeePassXC <packaging@keepassxc.org
> <mailto:packaging@keepassxc.org>>
> * URL : https://keepassxc.org
> * License : GPLv2, GPLv3
> Programming Lang: C++
> Description : Community fork of KeePassX, a free and open-source
> cross-platform password manager.
>
> KeePassXC aims to incorporate many pull requests as well as additional
> newly developed features that have never been merged into KeePassX.
> Besides many bug fixes and other minor changes, the current version
> (2.1.1) already contains the following additional features:
>
> - Autotype on all three major platforms (Linux, Windows, OS X)
> - Stand-alone password generator
> - Password strength meter
> - Use website's favicons as entry icons
> - Merging of databases
> - Automatic reload when the database changed on disk
> - KeePassHTTP support for use with PassIFox in Firefox and chromeIPass
> in Google Chrome and Chromium
>
> More features will come in 2.2.0. (e.g. Yubikey support, Twofish cipher
> support, a welcome screen redesign, general user interface improvements
> etc.)
>
> At the time of the fork, KeePassXC built upon the latest but never
> released KeePassX source tree, which included the switch to Qt5.
>
> I'm writing you as one of the main developers of KeePassXC. We would
> like to get KeePassXC into the official Debian repositories and from
> there into other derivatives such as Ubuntu. We would be willing to
> package KeePassXC ourselves, but since none of us developers is an
> active Debian user, we would like to ask first if someone else would be
> willing to package it for us. In the interest of package quality, this
> would likely be best. Packaging KeePassXC is (and for the foreseeable
> future will be) quite similar to packaging KeePassX, so maybe the
> original KeePassX maintainer could handle this if he's willing to? He's
> on X-Debbugs-Cc.
>
> Thanks and regards
> Janek
>
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