[bug-mailutils] Re: GNU Sharutils and security

[Stepan Kasal]

Hi,

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 06:45:47PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Before that, maybe it's time to split that package? uuencode and uudecode are 
> occasionally
> useful and can therefore be reasonably part of a distribution. However, shar 
> and unshar
> being a security leak by design, and being obsoleted by the addition of MIME 
> attachments
> to email protocols, I think shar and unshar shouldn't be installed on any 
> Unix system by
> default.

What about moving uuencode and uudecode to GNU mailutils?  Does it make sense?

Stepan Kasal