Good morning, On Fri, 2025-12-26 at 10:49 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Source: animals > Version: 201207131226-2.3 > Severity: important > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], Alberto Fuentes > <[email protected]>, Jim Lynch <[email protected]>, Philipp Schafft > <[email protected]>, [email protected], Package > Salvaging Team <[email protected]> > > Dear maintainer, > > I suggest removing animals from Debian for the following reasons: > > * Its blocking the removal of db5.3 > #1119191 animals: Depends on db5.3 > * It is not maintained upstream since 13 years
Is it that long already? Wasn't it like yesterday? > * There seems to be no active maintainer Speaking as upstream here. I consider to migrate this to a sqlite based backend at this point. But for reasons of my schedule I cannot work on this anymore this year. I have it on my list for January. I would be happy if we could keep it in Debian. But I also don't want to block any of your tasks at this point. With best regards, -- Philipp. (Rah of PH2)

