Hello, On Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 12:57 AM <benatt...@gezapig.nl> wrote: > > Source: audiotools > Version: 3.1.1-1.1 > Severity: normal > > > The version in Debian is from oct-2015. > There are edits until nov-2016 on original repo > and fork, maybe its interesting to look. > https://sourceforge.net/p/audiotools/code/ci/master/tree/ > https://sourceforge.net/u/petebleackley/audiotools/ci/master/tree/ > > > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/audiotools
There was no reply in contacting the author Brian, and our last correspondence with a reply was ten years ago. That person has recent github activity: https://github.com/tuffy Yet are not responding to pull requests on the python-audio-tools github repo: https://github.com/tuffy/python-audio-tools/pulls Python audiotools software has checksum, metadata handling, and transcode functionality that continues to be useful even though its core functionality around optical disc storage is not commonly used anymore. If we can resolve https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1080546 with a pull request against the python-audio-tools github repo and, if there is no response from the author, I would then suggest a fork of python-audio-tools repo to anyone willing to maintain the software and be responsive with pull requests. Mature software does not always need maintenance. However, this software does depend on some web services (i.e sunset of freedb.org) and also the Python interpreter having a trend of breaking changes every few years, this python audiotools software does however need some kind of active maintainer or we will carry patches specific to Debian packaging which I find to be a less than ideal situation. -E
