Hi, On Sat, 25 Jul 2020 11:49:07 -0700 Chuan-kai Lin <ck...@debian.org> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: normal > > I request an adopter for the fam package. > > I can no longer invest sufficient time to maintain this package. > Upstream had disappeared a long time ago, and gamin is a better > maintained alternative. > > The package description is: > FAM monitors files and directories, notifying interested applications > of changes. > . > This package provides a server that can monitor a given list of files > and notify applications through a socket. If the kernel supports > dnotify (kernels >= 2.4.x) FAM is notified directly by the kernel. > Otherwise it has to poll the files' status. FAM can also provide an > RPC service for monitoring remote files (such as on a mounted NFS > filesystem).
Is there any reason to keep FAM around any longer in your opinion, given upstream is dead and there is gamin? Or, in other words, why didn't you file a package removal request? Imho providing a package that runs a (even if just local) service as root doesn't combine well with a dead upstream with regards to security. I see the following reverse dependencies in aptitude: fam: (recommends) gnubiff libfam0: (depends) courier-base courier-imap doodled gnubiff libkf5coreaddons5 lighttpd omake sqwebmail Is any of these known to actually need fam instead of gamin? (For lighttpd I happen to know it is probably the other way round: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/lighttpd/-/merge_requests/18) cheers, Stefan
