[Pkg-silc-devel] Question regarding the now dead "silc" package (client)

[Jérémy Bobbio]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:23:47AM +0200, Enrico Mioso (@EEE (playgirl) ) wrote:
> I wrote this message to signal my disliking of what is being done with
> the silc client on debian.  Ok: I agree that embedded code copy is a
> bad thing, but the irssi silc plugin is just too bad to use!

Well, embedded code copies are strongly discouraged in Debian Policy
(since 3.8.0.0), see #392362 for rationales.  This also is for security
reasons, and the current security records for silc-* is bad enough to
warrant this, IMHO.

The official "SILC" client is simply a fork of irssi.  So there should
be no added value against using irssi with silc plugin.

> It crashes irssi frequently and hard, it ignores proxy settings and does other
> evil things. What should I do? Continue compiling silc any time I need it to
> run in another machine?

If you encounter bugs, please report them.  Debian maintainers (and
upstream, for that matter) is not able to fix bugs they are not aware
of.

Cheers,
-- 
Jérémy Bobbio                        .''`. 
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