Hi Andreas,
> I suggest removing mithril from Debian for the following reasons:
> 
>  * It accumulated one important bug:
>      # 1019179: /usr/lib/nodejs is deprecated
>    which makes me wonder whether this version of the package is
> helpful
>    for our users
>  * The packaged version is 1.1.6 while upstream has 3.0.0 so we
>    are shipping a very outdated version of this and its not clear
>    to me whether we have some proper upgrade strategy nor what the
>    reason for keeping the old version might be.
>  * Popcon is very low
>    https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=mithril
>  * There are no rdepends

I'm not particularly interested in mithril either, except that it's
needed to build the browserpass webextension. If we removed it, I'd
have to use a local copy to build browserpass.

Michael
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