Bug#439824: ITP: sanduhr -- An alarm clock designed as an hourglass (formerly in Debian)

[Thanasis Kinias <tkinias@kinias.org>]

scripsit Adeodato Simó:
> * Thanasis Kinias [Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:49:20 -0700]:
> 
> > This package is in stable but has been removed from testing and unstable
> > because the upstream developer and previous maintainer have abandoned
> > it.
> 
> And has this situation changed? In the home page of the project I don't
> see any new release since 2004.

AFAIK Jochen Voss is no longer working on the package.  I'm not sure
that's a good reason to keep it out of Debian, though, particularly as
we hadn't updated from the 2002 release to the 2004 release until a week
before the package was removed from Unstable (!).

For me the first priority is to get the latest version back into
Unstable, so that other users (I know they're not many, but they're
nonzero according to popcon) don't have to face the painful choice of
not upgrading their Lenny boxes, losing a fun and handy little program,
or repackaging the program themselves.  Then we can determine what to do
about updating it, get in touch with Mr. Voss about future development,
etc.

-- 
Thanasis Kinias
Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, and
  Instructor, Professional Enhancement Programs
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.
.
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  -- Amin Maalouf, _Léon l'Africain_