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On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 21:50:50 -0500 |
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"Marty E. Plummer" <hanetzer@×××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> So, as you may be aware I've been doing some work on moving bzip2 to |
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> an autotools based build. Recently I've ran into app-crypt/mhash, |
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> which is in a semi-abandoned state (talking with the maintainer on |
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> twitter atm), and I was thinking it may be a good idea to set up a |
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> project for keeping these semi-abandoned and really-abandoned |
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> libraries and projects up to date and such. |
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This is a common problem, however if you want to make this reasonable |
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you wouldn't make it a gentoo thing, but a cross-distro effort. The |
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idea has been tossed around a lot, but noone yet started implementing |
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it. |
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However keeping things alive may not always be the right option. |
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There's a reason mcrypt is abandoned. It's an ancient crypto library, |
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crypto is moving forward, there are better options. THe main user of |
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mcrypt was PHP, and PHP is abandoning it with 7.2. (There are 2 other |
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users in the gentoo tree of libmcrypt, which are both rather obscure |
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packages - nsca and elettra.) |
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Hanno Böck |
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https://hboeck.de/ |
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