Debian Bug report logs - #374521
RM: sslwrap -- RoM; dead upstream; obsolete

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: RM: sslwrap -- old, unmaintained, unnecessary

Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 20:28:33 +0100

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal

Please remove sslwrap from the archive at the earliest possible
opportunity.

It is unmaintained upstream; the last release was in December 2000 and
there have been numerous fixes added into the Debian package since then
that upstream have not responded to or folded in to mainline.

It is largely unnecessary in today's internet; it dates from a time when
you couldn't work on crypto easily if you were in the US, so apps
couldn't include their own SSL/TLS support and had to rely on wrappers
such as this. Thankfully these days are largely gone.

There are better replacements; Debian has at least crywrap (Gergely, the
maintainer, appears to be upstream as well) - this should handle those
rare cases where a user might want to wrap a service in SSL that doesn't
already support it.

I think it's time to just let sslwrap die; we've been carrying it for
long enough.

-- System Information:
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Message #12 received at 374521-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Debian Archive Maintenance <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>

To: 374521-close@bugs.debian.org

Cc: sslwrap@packages.debian.org, sslwrap@packages.qa.debian.org

Subject: Bug#374521: fixed

Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 00:45:23 -0700

We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:

   sslwrap |   2.0.6-18 | source, alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, hurd-i386, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc

Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag
database and may (or may not) still be in the pool; this is not a bug.
The package(s) will be physically removed automatically when no suite
references them (and in the case of source, when no binary references
it).  Please also remember that the changes have been done on the
master archive (ftp-master.debian.org) and will not propagate to any
mirrors (ftp.debian.org included) until the next cron.daily run at the
earliest.

Packages are never removed from testing by hand.  Testing tracks
unstable and will automatically remove packages which were removed
from unstable when removing them from testing causes no dependency
problems.

Bugs which have been reported against this package are not automatically
removed from the Bug Tracking System.  Please check all open bugs and
close them or re-assign them to another package if the removed package
was superseded by another one.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 374521@bugs.debian.org.

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