Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Please remove sslwrap from the archive at the earliest possible opportunity.
It is unmaintained upstream; the last release was in December 2000 and there have been numerous fixes added into the Debian package since then that upstream have not responded to or folded in to mainline. It is largely unnecessary in today's internet; it dates from a time when you couldn't work on crypto easily if you were in the US, so apps couldn't include their own SSL/TLS support and had to rely on wrappers such as this. Thankfully these days are largely gone. There are better replacements; Debian has at least crywrap (Gergely, the maintainer, appears to be upstream as well) - this should handle those rare cases where a user might want to wrap a service in SSL that doesn't already support it. I think it's time to just let sslwrap die; we've been carrying it for long enough. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
