Future of ares

Dear Debian Games Team,

A little while ago the upstream ares emulator project completely
upended the build system from Makefiles to CMake. Are there any
plans to continue maintaining the package with the new build system?

Are you looking for volunteers? If it's helpful to anyone, I have
forked the Debian Games/ares project and upgraded it to v146 [1].
Here is a summary of the changes:

* Updated package standards version to 6.7.2 (no changes were
necessary)
* Updated d/watch format to version 5
* Most patches have been modified to work with CMake instead of
Makefiles
* The functionality of disable-md-on-32bit.patch and
no-optional-extensions.patch has been moved to d/rules.
* Updated Build-Depends to libsdl3-dev, as required by upstream

Regards,

David James

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/Castor216/ares