Re: time to retire sharutils

Paul Eggert <[email protected]> Wed, 9 Apr 2025 19:11:44 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.utils.bugs
Organization UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 4/9/25 04:14, Lukas Javorsky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm the maintainer in Fedora/RHEL for the sharutils package and I raised
> this concern to our fedora-devel list [1].
> 
> It looks like users still use the `uudecode` and `uuencode` functionality,
> and they're asking what is the reason behind this decision.

Nobody has stepped up to maintain it and I was thinking it was time to 
retire it. If somebody (you?) would maintain it and if people need it 
then of course we should keep it going.