Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Hi,
please remove amora-server from Debian Unstable: (Reasons taken from my posting on https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=874812#42) * Upstream (Cc'ed) tried to migrate to Qt5 about two years ago. Compiling and running with Qt5 was not the big issue, but getting Bluetooh working again — and hence core functionality: https://github.com/amora/amora/issues/86#issuecomment-432001824 * Another point is that the main client platform are Nokia Symbian phones — which are nearly nowhere in use anymore. I still do have such a phone, but for years the only reason to power it on was to test amora before uploading. Haven't powered it on since the last upload... * There's code for a Qt client (Qt 4 or even older) which AFAIK never was published in any app store though. If I remember correctly I once got it running on my OpenMoko (i.e. ages ago). Or was it on the Nokia N900? Can't remeber anymore... We still can bring it back when the Qt5 port is working properly and there's a client for modern mobile phones (even if only for less popular OS like KaiOS/GerdaOS or SailfishOS). Upstream commented that mail in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=874812#57 as follows: > I wrote Amora server/client way back in 2007 (13 years ago) and for > a little while it was a pretty successful project. We had a PyS60 > (Nokia S60), J2ME client (never released) and a PythonEFL (Nokia > tablets) client. > > Around 2012, I expected that Linux would move to Wayland (so it > would require a new amora-server) and Nokia smartphone sales were > going down. So I planned to re-write the server (did some > experiments with QtWayland in 2012) and the client (2015 Qt was > fully functional on both Android and iOS) but never finished the > task to port the server to Qt5. > > Long story short, I support removing it from Debian as I lack the time to > do the re-write and the devices that could run the client are long > gone. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
