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this post was submitted on 10 May 2024
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They didn't "strip" anything, they've split it into 2 variants, a package without networking features (
-DWITH_XC_NETWORKING=OFF) and a package with them, because it's considered a privacy issue to have your password manager phone home and fetch favicons and so on. The packages will be calledkeepassxcandkeepassxc-fullgoing forward.KeepassXC replied on that thread that it wasn't just the privacy problematic networking that was removed:
https://fosstodon.org/@keepassxc/112417651131348253
I expect the KeepassXC people are mostly bothered by the naming of the package because the version called "keepassxc" is now the basic one. Anyway, the maintainer has offered to call them
-minimaland-fulland to make "keepassxc" a metapackage that pops up a debconf dialog telling users that install it to choose one. There is precedent with other complex packages that are split into basic and full. This should solve things nicely for everyone.That sounds reasonable. I use the package on LMDE6, the one currently in stable though. Having a minimal keepassxc and a full one makes sense to me.