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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for a new project: gentoo-libs
From:       "Marty E. Plummer" <hanetzer () startmail ! com>
Date:       2018-06-27 0:03:26
Message-ID: 20180627000326.2fudec4cqy2sakn5 () proprietary-killer
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On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 07:59:47AM +0200, Hanno Böck wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 21:50:50 -0500
> "Marty E. Plummer" <hanetzer@startmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > So, as you may be aware I've been doing some work on moving bzip2 to
> > an autotools based build. Recently I've ran into app-crypt/mhash,
> > which is in a semi-abandoned state (talking with the maintainer on
> > twitter atm), and I was thinking it may be a good idea to set up a
> > project for keeping these semi-abandoned and really-abandoned
> > libraries and projects up to date and such.
> 
> This is a common problem, however if you want to make this reasonable
> you wouldn't make it a gentoo thing, but a cross-distro effort. The
> idea has been tossed around a lot, but noone yet started implementing
> it.
> 
> However keeping things alive may not always be the right option.
> There's a reason mcrypt is abandoned. It's an ancient crypto library,
mhash, not mcrypt. I've not loked at mcrypt at all yet, so I have no
ideas as to its status.
> crypto is moving forward, there are better options. THe main user of
> mcrypt was PHP, and PHP is abandoning it with 7.2. (There are 2 other
> users in the gentoo tree of libmcrypt, which are both rather obscure
> packages - nsca and elettra.)
> 
> -- 
> Hanno Böck
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