Package: wnpp Severity: normal I intend to orphan the clipit package. The package was previously maintained by Dmitry Smirnov, who gave up on it at some point; I attempted to take it over, but with upstream not taking care of it, and unable to fix bugs, I switched to diodon[1] myself, so I’m not using ClipIt anymore, and I cannot take it over upstream, unfortunately; I have too many other things on my plate at the moment.
Parcellite, from which ClipIt was forked, had had some life breathed into it temporarily, and I believe the annoying UTF-8 support bug has been fixed, but otherwise it’s been equally dead upstream for years[2]. Diodon hasn’t seen any upstream development recently either, but at least it seems to be the least buggy of the three, and it also supports images, which both ClipIt and Parcellite don’t, so I’m sticking with it for now. If you intend to take this package over, please please make sure that you actually can get it sorted, it is not a trivial job, as I have painfully learnt myself. The package description is: Clipboard manager with features such as: * Save history of your last copied items * Search through the history * Global hotkeys for most used functions * Execute actions with clipboard items * Exclude specific items from history . ClipIt was forked[0] from Parcellite and adds many bugfixes and features to the project. References: [0]: https://github.com/CristianHenzel/ClipIt [1]: https://packages.qa.debian.org/d/diodon.html [2]: https://github.com/rickyrockrat/parcellite/commits/master -- Cheers, Andrej
