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On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 07:59:47AM +0200, Hanno Böck wrote: |
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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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mhash, not mcrypt. I've not loked at mcrypt at all yet, so I have no |
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ideas as to its status. |
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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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> -- |
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> Hanno Böck |
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> https://hboeck.de/ |
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> mail/jabber: hanno@××××××.de |
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> GPG: FE73757FA60E4E21B937579FA5880072BBB51E42 |
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