> > 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?
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 On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM Stephen Smoogen <ssmoo...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 at 04:57, Lukas Javorsky <ljavo...@redhat.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> The GNU project `sharutils` raised a question in upstream mailing list if >> there is still a need for this package. [1] >> >> > 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? > > > > -- > Stephen Smoogen, Red Hat Automotive > Let us be kind to one another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle. > -- Ian MacClaren > -- > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue > -- S pozdravom/ Best regards Lukáš Javorský Senior Software Engineer, Core service - Databases Red Hat <https://www.redhat.com> Purkyňova 115 (TPB-C) 612 00 Brno - Královo Pole ljavo...@redhat.com <https://www.redhat.com>
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