On Fri, 7 Aug 2015 09:14:47 +0200 Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> wrote: [...] > > There are only 2 packages in the whole archive depending on it (versus 150+ > > for 2.0) : asc and freqtweak. These packages are themselves quite dusty. > > I'll bump the severity of those two packages as well for the same reason.
Hi, I have talked to ASC upstream about this issue. The community around ASC is still active but there is currently nobody who could completely replace libsigc++-1.2 with libsigc++-2.0. Of course they would appreciate a patch. However they are also willing to include libsigc++-1.2 in their source tree. I think in this case this is acceptable because libsigc++-1.2 is a well tested library which has not seen any major security bugs or other serious flaws during the past nine years. It also works very well with ASC which is an old but stable and even more important enjoyable game. I have also considered to maintain libsigc++-1.2 but since I have no particular interest outside the scope of ASC for this library, it is better to remove it from Debian. freqtweak looks unmaintained upstream and in Debian, so I would agree with a removal as well. Regards, Markus
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