Hi Rhonda,
since francine came up as a candidate for the Bug of the Day[1] one team
member of the salvage team had a look into this package. I'm quoting here
the analysis:
* only upstream release 2001, itself fork of a "discontinued" program,
I haven't managed to have it not segfault yet
* okay when it doesn't segfault it hangs without trying to do I/O (and
then segfaults on exit)
* this seems to be a consistent mode of operation since 2003 at least;
the config mentions /etc/securetty (which we've notably gotten rid of a
decade ago) and /etc/usertty (which is so ancient i've never actually
heard of it before)
* (the config also mentions multiple bits that should be handled by
PAM. so how well it integrates into 2025 PAM (and, thus, "actual 2025
auth") is... questionable at best, to me)
* due to this current bug it's not in testing
* popcon inst=6 (vote=0)
* While it's described as a "login engine" if you're looking for a greeter
you won't get it
I would like to read your opinion about this analysis before anyone
might spent a certain amount of time into it. I personally think some
text mode login could be cool - but if we might conclude that the effort
to keep the package alive is higher than it deserves it might be better
to remove it from Debian?
What do you think?
If I do not hear from you in the next 21 days I will open a RoQA bug
against ftp.debian.org requesting the removal of the package.
Kind regards and thank you for your past work on this package
Andreas.
[1]
https://salsa.debian.org/tille/tiny_qa_tools/-/wikis/Tiny-QA-tasks#bug-of-the-day
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