On Wed, Apr 9, 2025, at 11:52 AM, Lukas Javorsky wrote:
>>
>> As others mentioned uudecode and uuencode are still used in a lot of
>> places. I thought at one time they were outside of sharutils and hten
>> brought into the project later. Are they asking about the 'shar' part or
>> the 'uucode' part or both?
>

Is the main reason lack of maintainers?  Many of these C packages work well on 
constrained and embedded devices.

>
> I believe it's for both. Either way, we can deprecate only the whole
> package, not just a part. We can stop building the shar part, but if
> possible, the deprecation/retirement of the whole package is preferred.
>
> libarchive
>
>
> Dropped dependency on sharutils [1]
>
> [1] https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/2571
>
>
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