time to retire sharutils

Paul Eggert <[email protected]> Thu, 3 Apr 2025 10:26:41 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.utils.bugs
Organization UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thanks for the sharutils bug reports and patches[1][2][3][4][5].

Are you actually using sharutils, or merely trying to build it? My 
impression is that today nobody uses this package, as it's been 
completely obsoleted by email attachments and other technologies. If so, 
it's time to retire sharutils rather than continue to maintain it.

Although I sent email to the sharutils maintainers suggesting this, I 
got not reply. This is further evidence that it's time to stop 
maintaining this package.

[1]: https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-gnu-utils/2025-03/msg00000.html
[2]: https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-gnu-utils/2025-03/msg00002.html
[3]: https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-gnu-utils/2025-03/msg00001.html
[4]: https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-gnu-utils/2025-03/msg00003.html
[5]: https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-gnu-utils/2025-04/msg00000.html