There is the possibility to create a separate project/package for
these "unmaintainable" libtiff utilities in order to significantly
lessen the degree of distress on libtiff itself but still allow these
utilities to be maintained, and released on a different schedule and
by perhaps different volunteers. To me this seems better than to
create more dead source code in the libtiff package.
That's an alternative I considered. But who are those potential
contributors to which we would give the "keys" of the repo ? In the
absence of people stepping up to create & maintain such repository for
those tiff tools, moving the code to archive/ could be a first step to
preserve the source code, and if someone wants to resurrect it, they can
start from that and we would remove it completely from libtiff itself at
that point.
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