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Re: Bug#907293: stops: Please consider making another upload and refreshing package



Hi Boyuan,
> Dear stops maintainer (Hi Free Ekanayaka)

Maintainer for this package is Debian Multimedia Team, it's just that
Free was the last uploader.

> I was cleaning up packages that hasn't receive any upload in Debian for a long 
> time and noticed that your package, stops, received no upload since 2007, 
> which is quite a long period of time.

As I recall, this package is static data, and may not ever need to be
updated upstream. Debian's version 0.3.0 is still the current release:
http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/downloads/index.html

stops is a dependency of the active package
https://packages.debian.org/sid/aeolus which has a new upstream release
available (0.9.7).

> Making uploads to stops might be necessary according to [1] since we want to 
> make Debian 100% reproducible in the future [2] and all packages built before 
> December 2016 will need a rebuild.

Sounds good! Also #888669 might need looking at. I am not a Debian
Developer but happy to help if I can find a sponsor.

> I am also considering initiating the MIA procedure[3] (targeting 
> package only, not to the person because I know you look still active) if 
> there's no reply after certain period of time

Hopefully that will not be necessary, aeolus is a unique software
instrument and it would be a shame to lose it from Debian.

Cheers!

Daniel


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