Bug#1039051: RFA: gforth -- GNU Forth Language Environment
Maybe post this in comp.lang.forth. The gforth maintainers hang out there. An update is long overdue, but my impression is that they
don't work with approved releases, only nightly builds. It is unclear how that fits in with Debian.
Greetings.
> Op 25-06-2023 06:50 CEST schreef Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>:
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> Package: wnpp
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc: gforth@packages.debian.org, roam@debian.org
> Control: affects -1 + src:gforth
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> I request an adopter for the gforth package. Turns out that in the past
> couple of years I have not given it enough care and attention.
>
> There is a Git repository containing all my Debian packaging work at
> https://gitlab.com/gforth/pkg-debian-full
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> The package was in good shape at the time of its last update, but
> things have moved on since then. Notably, I tried to bring in some
> new upstream beta versions every now and then, but they failed their
> build-time tests, and it would appear overly optimistic to keep
> pretending that I will track those test failures down.
>
> The package description is:
> This is the GNU'ish implementation of a Forth programming environment.
> .
> Forth, as a language, is best known for being stack-based, and completely
> extensible. Each Forth environment provides one or more dictionaries of
> pre-defined words, and programming in Forth consists of defining and
> executing new words that are combinations of previously defined words. It
> has been said that learning Forth changes forever the way you think about
> writing programs.
> .
> For more information about Forth, visit the Forth Interest Group web site
> at http://www.forth.org/fig.html.
>
> Thanks in advance to whomever picks this package up!
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