Your message dated Sat, 29 Feb 2020 23:05:45 +0000
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and subject line Bug#952818: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #952818,
regarding RM: amora-server -- ROM; not ported to Qt5, interfaces with obsolete
hardware
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Hi,
please remove amora-server from Debian Unstable:
(Reasons taken from my posting on
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=874812#42)
* Upstream (Cc'ed) tried to migrate to Qt5 about two years ago.
Compiling and running with Qt5 was not the big issue, but getting
Bluetooh working again — and hence core functionality:
https://github.com/amora/amora/issues/86#issuecomment-432001824
* Another point is that the main client platform are Nokia Symbian
phones — which are nearly nowhere in use anymore. I still do have
such a phone, but for years the only reason to power it on was to
test amora before uploading. Haven't powered it on since the last
upload...
* There's code for a Qt client (Qt 4 or even older) which AFAIK never
was published in any app store though. If I remember correctly I
once got it running on my OpenMoko (i.e. ages ago). Or was it on the
Nokia N900? Can't remeber anymore...
We still can bring it back when the Qt5 port is working properly and
there's a client for modern mobile phones (even if only for less
popular OS like KaiOS/GerdaOS or SailfishOS).
Upstream commented that mail in
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=874812#57 as
follows:
> I wrote Amora server/client way back in 2007 (13 years ago) and for
> a little while it was a pretty successful project. We had a PyS60
> (Nokia S60), J2ME client (never released) and a PythonEFL (Nokia
> tablets) client.
>
> Around 2012, I expected that Linux would move to Wayland (so it
> would require a new amora-server) and Nokia smartphone sales were
> going down. So I planned to re-write the server (did some
> experiments with QtWayland in 2012) and the client (2015 Qt was
> fully functional on both Android and iOS) but never finished the
> task to port the server to Qt5.
>
> Long story short, I support removing it from Debian as I lack the time to
> do the re-write and the devices that could run the client are long
> gone.
Regards, Axel
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--- Begin Message ---
We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:
amora-applet | 1.2~svn+git2015.04.25-1+b2 | amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386,
mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x
amora-cli | 1.2~svn+git2015.04.25-1+b2 | amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386,
mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x
amora-server | 1.2~svn+git2015.04.25-1 | source
------------------- Reason -------------------
ROM; not ported to Qt5, interfaces with obsolete hardware
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