[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Metadata anonymisation toolkit

Jonas Meurer jonas at freesources.org
Mon Mar 4 09:15:48 GMT 2019


Georg Faerber:
> On 19-02-15 00:51:04, Jonas Meurer wrote:
>> 2lorado at web.de:
>>> We missing the function for PDF-Files in the "Metadata anonymisation
>>> toolkit" Ver. 0.6.1-4 (Stretch Debian 64bit).
>>
>> Due to security issues, PDF support was disabled on purpose in mat. You
>> might want to look into mat2, the successor of mat:
>>
>> It's not available yet in Debian Stretch, but you can find it packaged
>> for Debian Buster: https://packages.debian.org/mat2. The package should
>> be installable on Debian Stretch without problems.
> 
> We've just uploaded mat2 to stretch-backports [1]. In case you've any
> feedback, be it positive or negative, we would be very happy to hear it.
> 
> Also, due to recent works, mat2 now also finally ships the Nautilus
> extension, in case that is important to you. mat2 currently ships no
> dedicated GUI, in contrast to mat. Version 0.8.0-3 is the first version
> to ship the extension, we will upgrade the version in stretch-backports
> in ~ ten days, after the migration to testing.

Yay!

> @Team: Due to mat2 now shipping a binary package mat, all of the five
> currently open bugs got reassigned. All of these deal exclusively with
> the original mat, hence, I plan to close these, marking as done and
> telling that mat2 is now available. Thoughts?

Sounds like a good plan, please go ahead :)

Cheers
 jonas


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