Hello Aurélien, and thank you for your reply. You mean that Soundkonverter has no longer been maintained or developed by the KDE team for 8 years now? If there's no maintainer/developer on Debian to take care of it, we should find one instead of removing this software from Debian. Many people use it because it's simply excellent! And I've never detected a single bug in it, unlike many other software programs available on Debian.
To better answer your question, there's been a controversy in recent years about software programs being removed from distributions because they're no longer updated. I'd like to tell you that as long as they don't have any proven security vulnerabilities and they work perfectly, they should never be removed from distributions. As they say in the IT world, when something works perfectly, you shouldn't touch it again or you'll break everything. Indeed, when a software is super hyper optimized and virtually bug-free, if you touch it, you'll just add bugs that weren't there before. This is exactly what the new maintainer of Gnome-SoundConverter did ;-( And if you want to have maintainers for every small module in Debian, you'd need dozens of "legions" of developers... I'm afraid such requirements are unrealistic and would be detrimental to Debian. Don't you think so? And then removing this software from Debian also means removing it from Ununtu, Mint, and all its other daughter distributions... Would you like a new maintainer before bringing it back up and running? I haven't developed for a very long time... Couldn't you instead ask the official KDE teams for help to get SoundKonverter working again on Debian? I'm sure they'd be happy to help. So I should offer myself as a maintainer? Best regards. Envoyé avec un e-mail sécurisé [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/mail/home). Le vendredi 22 août 2025 à 10:08, Aurélien COUDERC <li...@coucouf.fr> a écrit : > Le 21 août 2025 19:09:08 GMT+02:00, phil995511 <phil995...@proton.me> a écrit > : >>Hello dear maintainers / developers, >> >>The "Soundkonverter" software has disappeared from Debian 13 !? >> >>I saw that it's no longer maintained by anyone ? > > Yes, removed it from Debian because it was abandoned upstream. Last release > was 8 years ago and the upstream repo [1] has been archived more than 2 years > ago. > >>What can we do to get Soundkonverter back into Debian ? > > You need to adopt it or have someone adopt it upstream and we will happily > package it back into Debian. > > [1] <https://github.com/dfaust/soundkonverter> > > Happy hacking, > -- > Aurélien
