Package: src:xfireworks
Version:  1.3-15

The watch file at
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/xfireworks/-/blob/master/debian/watch
is missing. There is also no
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/xfireworks/-/blob/master/debian/upstream/metadata
file.

Thus there is no way to see what is the upstream origin of this package.

The copyright file simply says 'It was downloaded from
http://wwwmiya.ee.kagu.sut.ac.jp/~sakai/myfreesoft/xfireworks-1.0.tar.gz'
but that site does not exist anymore.

Is it so that this package has no upstream? It should have some
upstream. If not, then the Debian sources themselves should be
announced as a fork of the original package and maintenance should
continue as a native package, potentially with other distros referring
the the Debian fork as the new upstream.

Based on https://repology.org/project/xfireworks/versions it indeed
seems that this package only exists in Debian and the Debian is now in
effect a fork of the long gone old original version.

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