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<p>Hello Adithya,</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/11/2025 07:46,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Adithya.Balakumar@toshiba-tsip.com">Adithya.Balakumar@toshiba-tsip.com</a> wrote:<br>
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According to Freexian's[3] assessment, these packages are
flagged as at-risk for long-term support, primarily due to
insufficient upstream activity in their respective projects (<b>mhash
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Given that these are core dependencies for aide, we'd like to
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aide and aide-common in light of these upstream concerns.</div>
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<p>I understand your concerns. The upstream mhash repository[1]
seems pretty stale but there are many Linux distributions that
include it and provide support for it, like Debian [2,3]. The same
goes for liblockfile[4] which is also actively supported by
Debian[5,6] and other Linux distributions.</p>
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<p>Kind regards,</p>
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<p>Richard van den Berg</p>
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<p>[1]: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://sourceforge.net/p/mhash/code/merge-requests/">https://sourceforge.net/p/mhash/code/merge-requests/</a></p>
<p>[2]: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mhash">https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mhash</a></p>
<p>[3]:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/m/mhash/changelog-0.9.9.9-10">https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/m/mhash/changelog-0.9.9.9-10</a></p>
<p>[4]: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://sourceforge.net/p/mhash/code/merge-requests/">https://sourceforge.net/p/mhash/code/merge-requests/</a></p>
<p>[5]: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/liblockfile">https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/liblockfile</a></p>
<p>[6]:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/libl/liblockfile/changelog-1.17-2">https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/libl/liblockfile/changelog-1.17-2</a></p>
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