Re: 44 orphaned games in unstable

On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 13:46:47 +0200,
Andreas Ronnquist<[email protected]> wrote:

>On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 20:26:55 +0200,
>Petter Reinholdtsen<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>There are currently 44 orphaned packages in unstable with files in
>>/usr/games/.    
>
>>rafkill  
>
>This should probably be removed, Allegro 4.4 doesn't have much of a
>future in Debian.
>
>More details from me at:
>
>https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2024/03/msg00000.html
>
>I have seen very little interest in Allegro 4.4 since I've sent that
>mail, so I believe it might be best to let it go.
>

And here we have it in black and white from upstream:

https://github.com/liballeg/allegro5/issues/1587

a warning was added to https://liballeg.org/old.html :

>WARNING: These versions are not supported and may have critical
>security bugs! They are provided for historical curiosity reasons only.

(only the 5.2 branch is supported upstream).

-- Andreas Rönnquist
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