Re: Is anybody maintaining nedit?

[Joe B <jcb2023az@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 5:55 PM Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 05:16:07PM -0700, Van Snyder wrote:
> > Is anybody maintaining nedit? There's a list of developers on the "Help
> > => Version" menu but no addresses.
>
> I assume you are asking if the upstream project is dead, rather than
> if it is maintained within Debian or not.
>
> I do not know anything about nedit but the Debian changelog implies
> there hasn't been an upstream release since 2017, while all other
> recent package updates are minor packaging details.

I thought he was just asking who maintained it.
>
>     https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/n/nedit/nedit_5.7-5_changelog
>
>     ( linked from https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/nedit )
>
> Unless it was considered feature-complete in 2017, I don't think it
> is an ongoing project.
>
> I also note that its Debian maintainer has been assigned to the QA
> team, which typically happens for packages that no one volunteers to
> maintain any longer in Debian.

Also i found more info

unstable

https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/n/nedit/changelog-15.7-5

Stable

https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/n/nedit/changelog-15.7-3

Also

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/nedit/news/

Hope i'm doing this right as i'm still new to debian learning everything

Joe