Re: Bug#956844: RM: stardict -- RoQA; Orphaned; Upstream Inactive; Affected by dependency removals

Emfox Zhou <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.user.chinese.gb
Message-ID <CAFZbbGCRK+PZa9BzTRe_UQ27W0DnrWvxACS3a0j1XbaMX6SNkg@mail.gmail.com>
这并不是上游代码能不能获得的问题,而是作者愿不愿意积极主动更新的问题。
debian 需要一些更新的库,用相应旧库的软件要么就跟着更新,要么就被移出。
具体到星际译王这里,或者上游更新,或者维护者改成新库后不断打补丁,这
两者都没实现,就只能移出了。

说实话如果上游不愿意,维护者一直维护一些较大的变动是也很费力的事。

On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 10:23 AM atzlinux <[email protected]> wrote:

> 叹息下!在开源社区,难得有几个中国人主导的 Linux 图形界面的软件。
>
> 现在星际译王的上游源代码,还是可以获取的,最近一次更新是9 Dec 2019 。
>
> 可能目前原作者胡正最近可能没有时间处理,其它有兴趣的爱好者,欢迎帮忙看下哈!
>
> https://github.com/huzheng001/stardict-3
>
>
> 在 2020/4/16 上午3:58, Boyuan Yang 写道:
> > Package: ftp.debian.org
> > Severity: normal
> > User: [email protected]
> > Usertags: remove
> > X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected]
> [email protected]
> >
> > Dear Debian FTP Masters,
> >
> > It seems that package src:stardict became unsupportable given that its
> > upstream has been inactive for several years and that it (build-)depends
> on
> > several obsolete tools and libraries, including gnome-doc-utils and
> > enchant(1). With the release work of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS largely done, I
> believe
> > we could remove this package from Debian side now.
> >
> > (Users of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Debian 10 can still find stardict in the
> repos,
> > in case anyone needs it.)
> >
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