Re: Updating aseprite package.

Thanks, I'll check them out.

On Wed, 14 Apr 2021, 3:56 am Paul Wise, <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 6:24 PM GRIAN gsdf wrote:
>
> > Hey, I was wondering if the aseprite package could be updated, youre
> listed here:
> https://debian.pkgs.org/9/debian-main-amd64/aseprite_1.1.6+ds-1+b1_amd64.deb.html
> > as the maintainer.
>
> Debian 9 (stretch) is a frozen release and packages are not updated
> there, only major security issues get applied.
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
>
> > The newest version available is about 0.1 versions old, as the newest
> release of aseprite available on GitHub is 1.2.25(see
> https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/releases).
>
> asesprite is now under a proprietary license, so cannot be re-added to
> Debian main after the removal mentioned by Andreas. If you or anyone
> else wants to use or package it, I would suggest using LibreSprite
> instead, or another program like GrafX2, which is already available in
> Debian:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/864990
> https://dev.aseprite.org/2016/09/01/new-source-code-license/
>
> https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/commit/5ecc356a41c8e29977f8608d8826489d24f5fa6c
> https://libresprite.github.io/#history
> https://libresprite.github.io/
> http://grafx2.chez.com/
>
> --
> bye,
> pabs
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
>