Hello I was very busy and could not find time for aterm. If you believe there is a strong enough demand for aterm, I can try to maintain it.
It has been some time since I wanted to get involved in debian. Guylhem On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 7:10 AM, Axel Beckert <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I suggest to remove aterm from Debian: > > * Orphaned since 2008 > * No more upstream-development (Upstream writes[1]: "aterm is > deprecated and in a maintenance mode only; there will be no further > updates.") > * No UTF-8 or Unicode support > * Upstream recommends[1] to use rxvt-unicode instead (which is what > replaced aterm for me, too) > > The only reason which prevented me from filing the removal request > immediately is aterm's Popcon values[2], which raised from 600 to 1000 > half a year ago, after steadily going down for years. > > [1] http://aterm.sf.net/ > [2] http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=aterm > > Regards, Axel > -- > ,''`. | Axel Beckert <[email protected]>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ > : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin > `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE > `- | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 >
