Status update for Allegro packaging in Debian
Hi!
I have mailed to a Debian bug on allegro4.4 [1] describing my reasoning
regarding the allegro libraries - in short, allegro4.4 is pretty much
dead upstream, and my interest was basically to keep alex4 (which is
cool) in Debian, but since it migrated to non-free, my interest in
allegro4.4 has waned. So, if anybody would like to still see allegro4.4
in Debian, please step up now and help out. Since it is dead upstream,
my reasoning is that it is better to remove it from Debian if no
maintainer who wants to help steps up.
Previously Tobias Hansen has helped out, but now it is 8 (!) years
since his last upload of either package.(Please don't interpret this as
judgement, I am very happy for the help he has provided and all the
work he has done on the packages).
Allegro5 is another deal - still active upstream, and I have kept it up
to date in Debian, and while I have held the latest upload a short while
because of the time_t transition, it will come sooner or later - There
I am also waiting on a final decision on [2] from upstream. Other than
that allegro 5 is in a very good state, and I will keep maintaining it
as long as I can. But help would of course be appreciated on allegro5
too.
best
/Andreas Rönnquist
gusnan@debian.org
1: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1032670
2: https://github.com/liballeg/allegro5/pull/1543
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