Hi.

On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 18:11:23 +0100
Michael Fothergill <michael.fotherg...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Dear Debian folks,
> 
> Is compiz no longer usable in Jessie - no deb package and no longer
> maintained?

This project is dead as far as upstream concerned for, like, two years
- [1]. And for the most of us compiz died back in 2008 once upstream
decided to rewrite the thing in C++ (and failed).


> Is there anything that would replace it or is going end up like project
> looking glass?

Well, it depends on the features you want from the replacement.
Gnome-shell's mutter is probably the most close to compiz's features if
you can stomach a modern GNOME.


[1]
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2013-March/008131.html

Reco


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