Can the depreciation of fwknop be reconsidered?

[theory16]

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Output of brew doctor

Warning: Some installed kegs have no formulae!
This means they were either deleted or installed manually.
You should find replacements for the following formulae:
  pdftk

Warning: Some installed formulae are deprecated or disabled.
You should find replacements for the following formulae:
  fwknop
  ilmbase
  mcrypt
  openssl@1.1

Warning: You have the following deprecated, official taps tapped:
  Homebrew/homebrew-cask-versions
Untap them with `brew untap`.

Warning: You have unlinked kegs in your Cellar.
Leaving kegs unlinked can lead to build-trouble and cause formulae that depend on
those kegs to fail to run properly once built. Run `brew link` on these:
  openssl@3
  keyring
  fwknop

Warning: You have uncommitted modifications to Homebrew/homebrew-core.
If this is a surprise to you, then you should stash these modifications.
Stashing returns Homebrew to a pristine state but can be undone
should you later need to do so for some reason.
  cd /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core && git stash -u && git clean -d -f

Uncommitted files:
   M Formula/f/fwknop.rb
  ?? Formula/f/fwknop-ajs.rb
  ?? Formula/htdig.rb

Description of issue

The formula fwknop is marked disabled because :unmaintained - which I read means the project is abandoned. However, the project source is being maintained (last update is 7th Feb) and version 2.6.11. The client side of it is much used by me. I can compile it from source and use it outside home-brew but I suspect there are others who would value this back within homebrew. Any prospect of revisiting this decision? Thanks

[Bo98]

It was deprecated for one year and has been disabled for 10 months. The number of installs is very low and it seems that you're the first person in two years to notice.

The deprecation cycle started in 2022 in response to this: mrash/fwknop#344 (comment). A few months after we started the deprecation cycle, a comment restarting development was made so we could reconsider deprecation should someone open a pull request to update it to 2.6.11.

[theory16]

Thanks. I obviously noticed as soon as it was marked deprecated, but thought the compiled version might just keep working. An update to another package last week (gpgme?) then seemed to remove/overwrite some libraries which meant my version stopped working - that's the point where my "noticing" become more active! Anyway, you may be right that I could be the only person who uses it (and I only need the client side for Macs) so perhaps not much incentive for this to be prioritised. I do appreciate the quick response. Thanks.

[ZhongRuoyu]

I have opened a PR to undeprecate it: Homebrew/homebrew-core#181015

[ZhongRuoyu]

fwknop is now back to life.

[theory16]

Thank so much