Hello Francesco, First and foremost: if anybody reading these lines has time to take good care of fbreader, it has been up for adoption for quite some time (#808074).
On 26.11.2017 12:12, Francesco Poli wrote: [...] > Hello Eugene, > I noticed that fbreader needs to be ported to Qt5, but the upstream > project seems to be basically dead, as stated in [issue #285] > (which is referenced on the Qt4 removal Debian wiki page). > > [issue #285]: <https://github.com/geometer/FBReader/issues/285> > > It would be really sad news, if fbreader had to be removed from Debian: > it is a nice lightweight e-book reader. > > Some messages (currently) at the end of the above-cited [issue #285] > claim that a Qt5 port is possible with a couple of patches ("pallegro > commented Mar 30, 2016" and "idomeneo commented Nov 18, 2017"). > See also the [Gentoo pr #5970]. > > [Gentoo pr #5970]: <https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/5970> > > Those patches seem to be based on version 0.99.4, which you [said] you > were hesitant about packaging. Is it time to reconsider, perhaps? The only long-term solution I see to revive and maintain long-stagnated fbreader is that somebody becomes an involved and active upstream. I don't see that packaging a dead-end beta version with some patches on top is supportable and sustainable (but a prospective new maintainer can disagree with that). Unlike 0.99.x serie, 0.12.x serie does have two back-ends: Qt4 and GTK2. This is what I plan to do if nobody steps and as new Debian and/or upstream maintainer: 1. When Qt4 is removed from Debian, libzlui-qt4 (Qt4 back-end for fbreader) will go away. Fbreader will remain usable with libzlui-gtk (GTK2 back-end). 2. When GTK2 is removed from Debian, fbreader will be removed from Debian. Regards, -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF C++ GNU/Linux userspace developer, Debian Developer
