Bug#926276: Should guacamole-client be removed?

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi Moritz,

On  So 10 Jul 2022 19:57:56 CEST, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:

> Am Mon, Mar 08, 2021 at 09:05:22AM +0000 schrieb Mike Gabriel:
>> Hi Salvatore,
>>
>> On  Sa 06 Mär 2021 20:31:46 CET, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 12:27:25PM +0000, Mike Gabriel wrote:
>> > > Hi Moritz,
>> > >
>> > > On  Di 02 Apr 2019 22:04:34 CEST, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > Source: guacamole-client
>> > > > Severity: serious
>> > > >
>> > > > Should guacamole-client be removed?
>> > > >
>> > > > guacamole-client hasn't been updated since 2016, is removed  
>> from testing
>> > > > since 1.5 years and has four RC bugs at this point
>> > > >
>> > > > Cheers,
>> > > >         Moritz
>> > >
>> > > My suggestion to 'Nik was to drop FreeRDP support for a while  
>> and fix the
>> > > other issues and keep that in unstable.
>> > >
>> > > However, it's the maintainers call at the end.
>> >
>> > Almost 2 years later: Should maybe now guacamole-client be removed
>> > from the archive alltogether? The version currently in sid lacks quite
>> > behind the current upstream version, has security-bugs open (and at
>> > least one quite hard to backport fixes to the version in sid).
>> >
>> > As such I think it would be better to remove the package as well in
>> > unstable?
>>
>> I'll talk to the "recent" uploaders and suggest that I jump in. This won't
>> help for Debian 11, but I'd like to keep the software in Debian and will
>> take care of it via team uploads.
>
> Nothing seems to have changed for the past year, let's move forward with
> the removal from unstable?
>
> Cheers,
>         Moritz

As far as I know, Nik very recently found a financial sponsor for the  
time consuming effort of maintaining Guacamole in Debian. The funding  
opportunity is rather new (3-4 weeks), so let's hear what Nik has to  
say about this.

Mike
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