On Sun, 13 Nov 2016 18:31:48 +0100 Thijs Kinkhorst <th...@debian.org> wrote: > Package: squirrelmail > Severity: serious > > SquirrelMail has been missing from Stretch for a while now and I intend > to leave it that way. This bug is to document this explicit choice (and > room for any concerns). > > Upstream (of which I'm, at least on paper) part, has not made any new > release of SquirrelMail since 2011. There is some activity in commits > being done, but these do not result in releases. > > I've tried to work around this temporarily by packaging a snapshot of > upstream svn, but I'm not happy with that since this is an arbitrary > point in development and not a clear and tested release which we should > ship and support for years. Popcon for squirrelmail is significant but > shows a steady decline since 2010. > > Alternatives are availbale. There's the competing product roundcube > which is actively maintained in Debian and shows a steady popcon > increase. Another alternative is to install SquirrelMail from source > which is very easy and makes it easier to e.g. keep up with commits or > newer snapshots. The added value of a Debian package for squirrelmail is > hence not immense in my opinion. > > Of course this is not to pass any judgement value or to try to > discourage others from working on this package. I welcome any thoughts > in this bug report, or interest in putting the work into a sustainable > Debian package of squirrelmail.
Squirrelmail is one of the blockers to php5 removal (See #846069). Please comment on that bug about how we can keep squirrelmail, but still get rid of php5 (personally, I don't see how). Scott K
