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Debian maintainer unilaterally strips KeepassXC package of a lot of features (fosstodon.org)

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[–] fhein 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

remove ALL features from it

A password manager which only manages passwords? Scandal!

I'm sorry for the dev who obviously isn't happy with this decision, but it feels a bit blown out of proportion IMO

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I think it more sucks for people who were using the package who now cannot because something like they used a yubikey which is now a disabled feature. Sure, they could always move the .kdbx file to an OS that has a normal functioning KeepAss install, change from yubikey to password, and move the file back to the OS that breaks compatibility, but imo that is what I'd refer to as "lame" because "it sucks."

And I mean sure, the dev is probably mad that they've changed his work without any of the normal "forking" thing, honestly understandably so. I'm no expert but to me it seems that if it had been a fork like how other stuff works normally there'd be no issue.