#993932 RM: gyrus -- RoQA; unmaintained; abandoned upstream

#993932#5
Date:
2021-09-08 09:26:20 UTC
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gyrus is unmaintained upstream, and has been archived and made read-only:
<https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gyrus>. Its most recent release was
in 2013.

The version in Debian is effectively a fork, moving it from GTK 2 to
GTK 3. However, there is no Debian maintainer since 2013 either
(see #732011). I don't think it's a good idea for Debian to contain
packages that nobody maintains, either upstream or downstream.

This particular program seems to be a network client, which means it is
probably security-sensitive. I'm also concerned that it's a special-purpose
administrative IMAP client, yet is documented to not support TLS/SSL.

If someone wants to maintain gyrus, I would recommend that they fork the
(abandoned) upstream project and become its new upstream maintainer.

Perhaps this package should be removed from testing/unstable? If anyone
wants it, they can retrieve the most recent version from bullseye.

    smcv

#993932#20
Date:
2022-07-16 07:18:37 UTC
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The maintenance of the package will be continued and further
development will be done.

#993932#25
Date:
2022-07-16 07:18:49 UTC
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