NuGet Package Deprecation

[BernhardMaier]

Today we discovered that the NuGet package has been marked as “deprecated” on nuget.org and is no longer listed there. This means that we are currently unable to update the NuGet packages in our application.

Are there any reasons why the package is no longer maintained?

NuGet Page

[Uli-Armbruster]

That would be indeed interesting. What is the status?

[JeffreyHiscox]

Also curious about this?

[BernhardMaier]

We found out that the repo owner Retired from open-source and may not responde to our questions in this issue:

[lukasschachner]

That's very sad, @Eastrall. Can we support you in maintaining this package in any way?

[nielsNocore]

did anyone have a solution for this, an alternatives?

[BernhardMaier]

We found two possible alternatives that seem to be "clones" of Eastralls package or at least are based on it:

• V6.EntityFrameworkCore.DataEncryption
• EntityFrameworkCore.Crypto.DataEncryption

Both have almost the same readme as Eastralls and the first package also points to Eastralls repository. We haven't changed our dependencies or tested these packages yet, but maybe it's a quick and sufficient solution for you and you can take a look at them.

In the long term, an official fork of Eastrall's package or becoming a maintainer would be the best solutions, also in order to continue his work in a sustainable and worthy manner.

[nielsNocore]

@BernhardMaier thankyou for your answer,