Orphaning gmtk + gnome-mplayer + gecko-mediaplayer

[Ross Gammon]

On 04/25/2015 01:40 PM, Alessio Treglia wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Sebastian Ramacher
> <sramacher at debian.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> since upstream development of gmtk, gnome-mplayer and gecko-mediaplayer has
>> stopped some years ago, I'm thinking of orphaning all three packages. I'm not
>> longer using them and lost interest in them.
>>
>> Are any of my fellow Uploaders or somebody else from team still interested in
>> these packages?
> 
> If upstream's lost interest, unless some one speaks up please do kill them then.
> There are too many alternatives out there in the wild.
> 
> Cheers!
> 

Hi,

I am not sure upstream have completely lost interest. There was a
release last year and a commit this year. OTOH, I saw no statement about
moving away from Google Code hosting which they would have to do
soonish, and there are definitely more new issues than recent commits.

It is also a good point about the number of alternatives. I have noticed
that whilst updating the multimedia-blends tasks [1].

Maybe over the Stretch cycle we could use the blend pages to help weed
out the less popular and duplicate/overlapping or older/under maintained
packages. For a start I could demote some of them to "lower relevance"
instead of "high relevance" so they appear lower on the web pages.

But for now, I would be happy to add myself to Uploaders and keep an eye
on things for a bit longer.

Cheers,

Ross

[1] http://blends.debian.org/multimedia/tasks/index


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