[Slackbuilds-users] dislocker

[Barry J. Grundy]

On 26/06/21 03:11AM, B. Watson wrote:
 
> Does anyone use dislocker?
> 
> It's been effectively abandoned for years. We're updating mbedtls,
> which dislocker depends on... and it's going to need some serious work
> to get dislocker to work with mbedtls-3.6.6.
> 
> We have two choices: fix/patch/update dislocker to work with the new
> mbedtls, or remove dislocker (since it has no active maintainer).
> 
> So if anyone on this mailing list uses dislocker, *please* take
> over as maintainer. You won't have to patch it for the new mbedtls
> yourself, I'll do that job, and then hand the script over to you.
> 
> But if nobody cares about dislocker enough to want to maintain it, I'm
> going to remove it from the repo with the next update. No need to do
> all that work if it's unused/unloved.
> 
> So anyone?

I prefer libbde.  But that might not work for those who want something
less restrictive.  I have students that I know have used dislocker in
the past, but that's most likely because it's the first Bitlocker
solution they come across rather than a real preference.  So I do know
that it is being used, but I cannot say for sure that it would be missed
if removed.

Barry
bgrundy at linuxleo.com