Re: What should we do with src:fteqcc (and Nexuiz) ?

Hey Sébastien,


On 7/30/26 04:57, Sébastien Noel wrote:
> * remove Nexuiz ?
>    I don't like that option more than anyone else, but realistically
>    Debian has kept it on life support for a very very long time,
>    upstream has moved on, and the last person listed in 'Uploaders'
>    for this package hasn't touch it in 15 years.

I likewise love the idea of classic Free games being in Debian. That 
being said, we all have limited time and sometimes there are hard 
choices to be made about where to spend that time. I say this as someone 
who "recently" removed several of "my" game packages for maintainability 
reasons.

The way I see it, if something is easy to maintain in Debian (including 
lack of upstream security issues) and people enjoy using it, let's keep 
it in. Even if not many people use it. As soon as maintainability starts 
to be a problem, we have to weigh the effort involved against the 
benefit our users are getting from it. For reference, not many people 
seem to be using Nexuiz...[1]

Best regards,
-Olek

[1] https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=nexuiz