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Bug#924270: O: keepassx -- Cross Platform Password Manager



On 3/11/19 4:29 AM, Shengjing Zhu wrote:> On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at
3:15 AM Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de> wrote:
>>
>> Package: wnpp
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> Keepassx is a graphical password manager, using the Qt4 toolkit. I'm no
>> longer using this package and have personally switched to
>> 'password-store'.  Unfortunately, I've also failed to get a response
>> from upstream from
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=920616 - which
>> recommends to replace keepassx with keepassxc, a community fork,
>> possibly because of unresponsive upstream.
>>
>> I am undecided whether or not this package should be included in Debian
>> 10 (aka buster). It clearly is useful to many people, but its long-term
>> maintenance is unclear.
>>
>> I'd encourage people interested in picking up this package to coordinate
>> with Julian Klode (CC'ed), the Debian keepassxc maintainer.
>>
> 
> I'm also long-time user of keepassx.
> 
> I checked the upstream. In surprise, I found the master version has
> switched to Qt-5. And the upstream author is Felix Geyer, who is DD as
> well.
> 
> Felix, could you have some inputs here?
> 
> In person, I hope keepassx is in buster. I can help uploading the
> master version(with Qt-5) if Qt-4 is really needed to be removed from
> buster. However I'm unsure if RT is fine with this big change(I assume
> it's not ok).

Whoever cares: I've been using keepassx for years now and switched
to keepassxc just because of this issue without any troubles. If
long-term maintenance is unclear we (Debian) maybe should avoid
going that way...

JM2C && HAND,
 - Darsha

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