On Thu, 28 May 2026 01:34:17 +0200,
Kirill A. Korinsky <kirill@korins.ky> wrote:
> 
> ports@,
> 
> I just discovered that tmate is more or less dead.
> 
> It's servers and site it shutdown for about a year:
> https://github.com/tmate-io/tmate/issues/322#issuecomment-3083138790
> 
> Last release had happened in November 2019:
> https://github.com/tmate-io/tmate/releases/tag/2.4.0
> 
> And the last commit to it's repo is fix for some CVE:
> https://github.com/tmate-io/tmate/commit/3e12f558c7b71b7135403cdd2df77d38538a695c
> 
> Here a fork which claims that seems to be based on Tmux 3.6a
> https://github.com/sa3lej/tmtv/commit/626692bef75997d46a7f5c510fb9f6c27c93b775
> 
> What shall we do with tmate? Keep it as is and backport fix for CVE? Replace
> by tmtv?
> 

Nobody seems to care about tmate.

I can make a port of tmtv to replace tmate which seems exists only at
archlinux's AUR: https://repology.org/project/tmtv/versions

Another and simpler option is retire tmate completley.

Anyone OK to remove it?


-- 
wbr, Kirill