Re: Upstream which doesn't want to migrate to GTK3

On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 00:09:00 +0000,
Paul Wise<[email protected]> wrote:

>On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 11:36 AM Andreas Ronnquist wrote:
>
>> I would like to remove asunder from Debian, and if a GTK3 upstream
>> conversion is released (by the asunder upstream maintainer or by
>> someone else), I would gladly package that in Debian.  
>
>There are a few additional factors here:
>
>CDs are kind of obsolete, audio distribution has mostly moved to
>online platforms.
>
>There is already a GTK3 CD ripper in Debian called sound-juicer.
>
>FreeDB has been closed and asunder doesn't support the alternative
>(AFAICT).
>
>http://www.gusnan.se/blog/programming/freedb-is-closing-its-service/
>
>Personally I think it would be fine to leave it out of Debian for now.
>

Actually even though freedb is closed, there's gnudb.org which work ok
as a replacement, so _that_ isn't a reason to remove asunder.

-- Andreas Rönnquist
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