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[PATCH] Add MAT, the Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit from Boum

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
Cc: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich <at> gmail.com>, 31307 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#31307] [PATCH] Add MAT,
 the Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit from Boum
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 09:06:32 +0200

Hello,

Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name> skribis:

> I see two different issues here:
>
> 1) The project is unmaintained (last release 2016) and the underlying
> platform (Python 2) will become unmaintained in January 2020.
>
> I think these maintenance issues are not a blocker in this case. We
> package lots of software that has been basically abandoned for longer
> than MAT. Its source repo saw activity in March. On this subject, we
> should think about building from HEAD since those new commits will
> probably never be "released".
>
> 2) The software is not guaranteed to achieve its goals.
>
> I think the idea of "anonymizing" a file is always going to be
> manifested as a goal rather than a full solution. No matter the level of
> upstream maintenance, anonymity can never be guaranteed.
>
> So, I think it's okay to add the package with a big warning in the
> description, maybe even saying something scary like "only recommended
> for educational and research activity".

Sounds reasonable to me.

Chris, what would you like to do with this package?

Ludo’.

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