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

[Enrico Mioso (@metropolis)]

On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:

==Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:07:11 +0100
==From: Jérémy Bobbio <lunar at debian.org>
==Reply-To: "Enrico Mioso (@EEE (playgirl) )" <mrkiko.rs at gmail.com>,
==    pkg-silc-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
==To: "Enrico Mioso (@EEE (playgirl) )" <mrkiko.rs at gmail.com>
==Cc: pkg-silc-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
==Subject: Re: [Pkg-silc-devel] Question regarding the now dead "silc" package
==    (client)
==
==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                        .''`. 
==lunar at debian.org                    : :?  :  # apt-get install anarchism
==                                    `. `'` 
==                                      `-   
==


Ok... Is the silc server also affected by those? It seems not... but that's 
only a curiosity
apt-get install anarchism # yeah!!!!!