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
