From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>, 31307@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#31307] [PATCH] Add MAT, the Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit from Boum
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 09:06:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736xoy1dz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180506194444.GB8038@jasmine.lan> (Leo Famulari's message of "Sun, 6 May 2018 15:44:44 -0400")
Hello,
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:
> I see two different issues here:
>
> 1) The project is unmaintained (last release 2016) and the underlying
> platform (Python 2) will become unmaintained in January 2020.
>
> I think these maintenance issues are not a blocker in this case. We
> package lots of software that has been basically abandoned for longer
> than MAT. Its source repo saw activity in March. On this subject, we
> should think about building from HEAD since those new commits will
> probably never be "released".
>
> 2) The software is not guaranteed to achieve its goals.
>
> I think the idea of "anonymizing" a file is always going to be
> manifested as a goal rather than a full solution. No matter the level of
> upstream maintenance, anonymity can never be guaranteed.
>
> So, I think it's okay to add the package with a big warning in the
> description, maybe even saying something scary like "only recommended
> for educational and research activity".
Sounds reasonable to me.
Chris, what would you like to do with this package?
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-15 7:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-28 21:38 [bug#31307] [PATCH] Add MAT, the Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit from Boum Chris Marusich
2018-04-28 22:11 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-04-29 3:09 ` Chris Marusich
2018-04-29 8:18 ` Chris Marusich
2018-05-02 6:00 ` Chris Marusich
2018-05-02 6:12 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-05-05 20:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-05-05 21:37 ` Chris Marusich
2018-05-06 19:26 ` Leo Famulari
2018-05-06 19:44 ` Leo Famulari
2018-06-15 7:06 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2018-07-05 8:29 ` Chris Marusich
2018-06-16 13:42 ` Nils Gillmann
2021-09-13 2:26 ` Sarah Morgensen
2021-11-08 1:34 ` [bug#31307] [PATCH] Add MAT, the Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
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