Re: time to retire sharutils
Paul Eggert <[email protected]> Wed, 9 Apr 2025 19:11:44 -0700
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.utils.bugs |
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| 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.