[Pkg-amule-devel] Bug#751241: Bug#751241: amule: Please update to use wxwidgets3.0

[Sandro Tosi]

Hello Olly,

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:46:49PM +1200, Olly Betts wrote:
>> Do you know what plans amule upstream have for wx3.0 support?  I've
>> tried to check their website, but it just gives a page saying the
>> site is down due to server migration, with a link to the downloads
>> page, and another to a forum which is 404.
>
> I had a look in the wayback machine, and it's been like that since
> September 2012!
>
> https://web.archive.org/web/20120919013043/http://www.amule.org/

yeah I know, they simply suggest to go to a forum website to talk
about amule. I already made a lot of complains about that, even
proposed to migrate to Google Code volunteering for the migration -
but they just simply refuse any such help and ignore any complains
about a missing website for such a long time :(

> And the last release looks like it was made 2011-11-11 - the two
> together make me wonder if amule is in fact dead upstream.

well they are available thru such forum, but they don't seem to do
much development work there.

> If so, is it worth trying to keep it in Debian?  To do so, you're
> essentially going to need to take over the work upstream would
> normally do...

Amule - as is in Debian - works without any problem: it connects to
KAD and emule servers network, downloads/uploads correctly and so on,
so even if upstream is not "present" at teh moment the project per see
has still a lot of usefulness in Debian; but I don't plan to do any
development work on it, I'll just keep packaging it and maintain such
package - that's all. ah sure patches are welcome :D

Cheers,
-- 
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