* Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-12-22 22:03]: > > Why? It has a history of security issues and we should try to get rid > > of it. > > After having a look at various other MIME-related packages it looks > like metamail didn't do what I expected it in the first line, and > furthermore, the "mimencode" functionality is provided by various > other packages (e.g. mime-codecs). > > Getting rid of it looks hard though, it is depended-on heavily and > popcon lists it as installed on ~25% of the machines participating.
It would be nice if some QA person could start filing bugs on the packages which recommend/depend on metamail. I've done it on a few about a year ago but I don't think I've done it for all of them. Maybe someone could also investigate what in metamail those programs need exactly and if there isn't an alternative already, such as mime-codecs (see e.g. #213443). -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/
