Bug#924270: O: keepassx -- Cross Platform Password Manager
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Keepassx is a graphical password manager, using the Qt4 toolkit. I'm no longer using this package and have personally switched to 'password-store'. Unfortunately, I've also failed to get a response from upstream from https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=920616 - which recommends to replace keepassx with keepassxc, a community fork, possibly because of unresponsive upstream. I am undecided whether or not this package should be included in Debian 10 (aka buster). It clearly is useful to many people, but its long-term maintenance is unclear. I'd encourage people interested in picking up this package to coordinate with Julian Klode (CC'ed), the Debian keepassxc maintainer. Best, -rt
Bug#924270: O: keepassx -- Cross Platform Password Manager
Hi, On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 3:15 AM Reinhard Tartler wrote: > > Package: wnpp > Severity: normal > > Keepassx is a graphical password manager, using the Qt4 toolkit. I'm no > longer using this package and have personally switched to > 'password-store'. Unfortunately, I've also failed to get a response > from upstream from > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=920616 - which > recommends to replace keepassx with keepassxc, a community fork, > possibly because of unresponsive upstream. > > I am undecided whether or not this package should be included in Debian > 10 (aka buster). It clearly is useful to many people, but its long-term > maintenance is unclear. > > I'd encourage people interested in picking up this package to coordinate > with Julian Klode (CC'ed), the Debian keepassxc maintainer. > I'm also long-time user of keepassx. I checked the upstream. In surprise, I found the master version has switched to Qt-5. And the upstream author is Felix Geyer, who is DD as well. Felix, could you have some inputs here? In person, I hope keepassx is in buster. I can help uploading the master version(with Qt-5) if Qt-4 is really needed to be removed from buster. However I'm unsure if RT is fine with this big change(I assume it's not ok). -- Shengjing Zhu
Bug#924270: O: keepassx -- Cross Platform Password Manager
On Mon, 2019-03-11 at 11:29 +0800, Shengjing Zhu wrote: > I'm also long-time user of keepassx. I was also a user of keepassx. Its bugs and continual crashes were a real annoyance, so I was always on the lookout for a more stable, 100% compatible replacement. I found one, or more accurately one arrived in Debian. keepassxc is fork of keepassx, is in buster and now also strech- backports, works fine with on the same files keepassx used, and hasn't crashed yet. There is no reason for anyone to be too concerned over the fate of keepassx. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#924270: O: keepassx -- Cross Platform Password Manager
Hi, On 11.03.19 04:29, Shengjing Zhu wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 3:15 AM Reinhard Tartler wrote: >> >> Package: wnpp >> Severity: normal >> >> Keepassx is a graphical password manager, using the Qt4 toolkit. I'm no >> longer using this package and have personally switched to >> 'password-store'. Unfortunately, I've also failed to get a response >> from upstream from >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=920616 - which >> recommends to replace keepassx with keepassxc, a community fork, >> possibly because of unresponsive upstream. >> >> I am undecided whether or not this package should be included in Debian >> 10 (aka buster). It clearly is useful to many people, but its long-term >> maintenance is unclear. >> >> I'd encourage people interested in picking up this package to coordinate >> with Julian Klode (CC'ed), the Debian keepassxc maintainer. I've replied to you but unfortunately your mail provider / filter seems to discard my mails. I will continue maintaining KeePassX for the time being but likely only do important bugfixes and other necessary changes (like the port to Qt5). > I'm also long-time user of keepassx. > > I checked the upstream. In surprise, I found the master version has > switched to Qt-5. And the upstream author is Felix Geyer, who is DD as > well. > > Felix, could you have some inputs here? > > In person, I hope keepassx is in buster. I can help uploading the > master version(with Qt-5) if Qt-4 is really needed to be removed from > buster. However I'm unsure if RT is fine with this big change(I assume > it's not ok). Qt 4 won't be removed from buster. There are still lots of packages using it in the archive. Switching keepassx to Qt5 this late (essentially after the freeze) seems inappropriate to me. I don't see the release team unblocking this. Cheers, Felix
Bug#924270: O: keepassx -- Cross Platform Password Manager
On 3/11/19 1:09 PM, Felix Geyer wrote: > I've replied to you but unfortunately your mail provider / filter seems to > discard my mails. I'm sorry to hear that. If gmail is giving you a hard time, feel free to contact me on my @debian.org email address (or vice versa) in the future. This email made it through just fine. > I will continue maintaining KeePassX for the time being but likely only do > important bugfixes and other necessary changes (like the port to Qt5). I'm glad to hear that! -rt
Bug#924270: O: keepassx -- Cross Platform Password Manager
On 3/11/19 4:29 AM, Shengjing Zhu wrote:> On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 3:15 AM Reinhard Tartler wrote: >> >> Package: wnpp >> Severity: normal >> >> Keepassx is a graphical password manager, using the Qt4 toolkit. I'm no >> longer using this package and have personally switched to >> 'password-store'. Unfortunately, I've also failed to get a response >> from upstream from >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=920616 - which >> recommends to replace keepassx with keepassxc, a community fork, >> possibly because of unresponsive upstream. >> >> I am undecided whether or not this package should be included in Debian >> 10 (aka buster). It clearly is useful to many people, but its long-term >> maintenance is unclear. >> >> I'd encourage people interested in picking up this package to coordinate >> with Julian Klode (CC'ed), the Debian keepassxc maintainer. >> > > I'm also long-time user of keepassx. > > I checked the upstream. In surprise, I found the master version has > switched to Qt-5. And the upstream author is Felix Geyer, who is DD as > well. > > Felix, could you have some inputs here? > > In person, I hope keepassx is in buster. I can help uploading the > master version(with Qt-5) if Qt-4 is really needed to be removed from > buster. However I'm unsure if RT is fine with this big change(I assume > it's not ok). Whoever cares: I've been using keepassx for years now and switched to keepassxc just because of this issue without any troubles. If long-term maintenance is unclear we (Debian) maybe should avoid going that way... JM2C && HAND, - Darsha signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
