I'm orphaning arc in Fedora Extras

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le samedi 15 octobre 2005 à 17:31 +0200, Klaus Reimer a écrit :
> Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > Arc is an old archiver/unarchiver. For a long time its licensing status
> > was unclear, and no one dared touch it. It has been GPLed lately but the
> > sourceforge project seems dead (last release in 2003, "dump last version
> > on the world and go away").
> 
> That's not true. The last release "seems" to be from 2003 because up to
> now I used the release-management of sourceforge not correctly. Looks
> like Howard has done it right in his last update a few days ago.

Yep, we did the last releases together.
I must admit it was a pleasant surprise.

> I'm mainting the debian package of arc and I have fixed the latest
> security issues in arc. So you can't say that arc is dead. It's most
> likely that it will never gain new features but bugs will still get
> fixed if someone finds one.

I'd still like someone to do a security audit of arc. I trust it more
now than the release process has been at work, but still not as much as
its inclusion in products like amavis would require.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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