On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 06:39:56PM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Tue, 28 May 2013, Petr Pisar wrote:
> >I've corrected license declaration at sharutils package:
>
> Why do we even bother shipping an old obsoleted [.....]
... and I thought you were talking about sharutils :-)
Should we really distribute shar/unshar? It's been known at least
20 years that these programs are horribly unsafe.
(Note that 'sharutils' also contains uuencode/uudecode which are
rather more useful).
Rich.
uuencode is... an old and reliable friend. I'd like to keep it around.