[Pkg-stud-maintainers] Bug#765332: Bug#765332: stud: The upstream is no longer maintained

[Vincent Bernat]

 ❦ 14 octobre 2014 10:54 +0200, Michal Trojnara <Michal.Trojnara at mirt.net> :

> The upstream for stud seems to be dead, as the team that
> authored and supported this software no longer exists.
> I'm not sure whether it affects the Debian package or not.
> I could not find anything on this topic in the Debian policy.
>
> The home page (https://github.com/bumptech/stud) claims "stud
> (...) is maintained by the Bump (http://bu.mp) server team."
> According to http://bu.mp/ "Bump is no longer available.".
> Further details can be found on http://blog.bu.mp/:
> "We are now deeply focused on our new projects within Google,
> and we've decided to discontinue Bump and Flock."

Hi Michal!

I agree that stud is currently dead. Upstream doesn't even have time to
tag a new version (which could be useful because there are some
interesting features).

On the other hand, because the codebase is relatively small, it is easy
to maintain as is. As far as I know it can still fill its role (but the
0.3 version doesn't have support for EC cryptography).

The big question is: should it be removed now or should it be removed in
jessie+1?
-- 
printk("VFS: Busy inodes after unmount. "
        "Self-destruct in 5 seconds.  Have a nice day...\n");
        2.3.99-pre8 /usr/src/linux/fs/super.c
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