Bug#1029171: RM: muon -- ROM; Abandoned upstream

[Aurélien COUDERC <coucouf@debian.org>]

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: ftp.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: remove
X-Debbugs-Cc: muon@packages.debian.org, Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org>
Control: affects -1 + src:muon

Dear FTP Masters,

Muon, the KDE graphical frontend for apt-based distros has been
abandoned upstream with no activity for some years and the source
repository now being archived (= read-only) on their GitLab [0].

It’s been superseded by Plasma Discover, using packagekit as a backend,
which is actively maintained.

Also another project named muon has sprung up [1] as a
reimplementation of the meson build system in pure C99, and the
maintainer would like to reuse the /user/bin/muon path for bookworm+1
which makes sense for a command line tool.

So I hereby request the removal of src:muon from unstable.


[0] https://invent.kde.org/system/muon
[1] https://sr.ht/~lattis/muon/


Thanks,
--
Aurélien