> On 31 Aug 2021, at 3:42 pm, Paul W. Rankin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm the author of the Emacs Fountain Mode package. The Debian package 
> elpa-fountain-mode appears to have fallen some years out of date:
> https://repology.org/project/emacs:fountain-mode/versions
> 
> I've tried to get in touch with the Debian package maintainer Nicholas D. 
> Steeves <[email protected]> a few times without success.
> 
> Bug #960268 suggests that there is a block due to dropping support for 
> exporting to PDF. This is inaccurate. I dropped the existing (partial) 
> support to export to LaTeX. Fountain Mode was never designed to export to 
> PDF. This functionality has always been best handled by the user's choice of 
> external command line tool.
> 
> May I suggest either updating elpa-fountain-mode to the current version 3.5.1 
> or removing the package from Debian?

Hello,

There does not appear to be much enthusiasm to keep the Debian 
elpa-fountain-mode package at all up-to-date. As the upstream author I would 
appreciate if you would please remove it from Debian.

Thank you.

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