Your message dated Sun, 28 Feb 2021 12:27:21 +0000
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and subject line Bug#983122: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #900890,
regarding jugglemaster is dead upstream
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Source: jugglemaster
Version: 0.4-9
Severity: important
With my maintainer hat, I observe that jugglemaster is unfortunately
fairly dead upstream. When I was packaging it initially, they quickly
answered inquiries about licenses, but nothing ever happened to the
code.
On the Debian side, we have a fair number of portability patches now and
this is becoming more of a problem as more patches pile up. It takes the
time of those who update relevant libraries (e.g. Olly Betts).
At the time of packaging jugglemaster, there was no site swap animator
in Debian. It was the only tool for solving this job. That has changed
as well. Now there is jugglinglab. From my pov, it has a comparable
features (at least for basic needs unless you happened to use aajm as a
text mode screen saver).
Thus I believe it is time to deprecate jugglemaster in Debian. I propose
the following deprecation plan:
* Release it with buster to have one release that contains jugglemaster
and juggling lab.
* After buster is released, raise severity of this bug to serious to
kick it out of testing.
* If nobody complains, request removal from Debian.
If you happen to read this as someone porting jugglemaster to a newer
library version (e.g. ffmpeg/wx/aa). Please speak up in this bug before
performing the porting to avoid useless work. I'm happy to consider an
accelerated deprecation if the need arises. I'm also happy to consider
keeping it longer provided that it does not slow down any library
transitions.
If you happen to read this after buster without severity serious, I
likely forgot and am happy if someone else does that.
It was a nice time with jugglemaster, but I think it is time to prepare
for a goodbye.
Helmut
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 0.4-10+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package jugglemaster has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/983122
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.
This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org.
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pp.
Joerg Jaspert (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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