Hi jvoisin,
I sorry to read you put MAT on hold. What I find even more regrettable
is that the current version of MAT is crippled since you disabled PDF
support. This is not what Hartmut and I intended to achieve when we
reported the bug [1,2] and later wrote the blog post [3] on the
Digitalcourage website.
Before you leave MAT development, could you possibly fulfill the
feature request to bring back PDF support [4] – at least for cases it
worked before – by implementing the following procedure? MAT's check
functionality reliably detects when PDF cleaning fails. So why not try
cleaning the PDF using the old code, then automatically check the
file? If the check fails, MAT should abort with a non-zero error code
and remove the generated output file. This should be easy to
implement, don't you think?
Thanks a lot for your work on MAT! I believe people use it for
important things, and even more people should be using it.
All the best,
Christian
[1]
https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/11067
[2]
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=826101
[3]
https://digitalcourage.de/blog/2016/using-tails-be-careful-embedded-metadata
[4]
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=839068
On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 07:26:43PM +0200, jvoisin wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> bad news today: I've decided to put MAT on hold for now (mostly for
> health reasons). I might go back to it at some point in the future,
> if/once I'm going better.
>
> The current version of MAT (0.6.1) contains bugs[1] and doesn't work
> with Python3, so I would advise against using it.
>
> If someone wants to take over the maintenance/leadership, I'll be happy
> to do my very best to help him/her.
>
> I do want to thank everyone that was/is involved in this project:
> contributors, packages maintainers, researchers, friends, …
>
> I updated the website[2] to reflect this decision.
>
> All the best,
>
> 1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=mat
> 2. https://mat.boum.org
>
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