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I request assistance with maintaining the clipit package. The package was previously maintained by Dmitry Smirnov, who gave up on it at some point; I attempted to take it over, but with upstream not taking care of it, and unable to fix bugs, I switched to diodon[1] myself, so I’m not using ClipIt anymore, and I cannot take it over upstream, unfortunately; I have too many other things on my plate at the moment. Parcellite, from which ClipIt was forked, had had some life breathed into it temporarily, and I believe the annoying UTF-8 support bug has been fixed, but otherwise it’s been equally dead upstream for years[2]. Diodon seems to be the least buggy of the three, and it also supports images, which neither ClipIt or Parcellite do. I’ve been using it for about a year now, and so far I’ve not had any troubles with it. In the more than half a year since I orphaned the package (#941081), nobody volunteered to take this over but since I’m still set as the maintainer in the currently uploaded release, I see that people are still using it and there are more annoying bugs than just what I observed. My biggest complaint about ClipIt was that since the last upstream release it became very unreliable: items sometimes don’t get copied into the clipboard, sometimes wrong items get pasted, and also it somehow mangles with the selection making it disappear immediately in some apps like GNOME Terminal and LibreOffice. Since the upstream developer disappeared a year ago, there’s been some user activity on GitHub, but nobody seems to have fixed the most annoying issues. The best course of action now would be to take this package over upstream and get it fixed, or at least get it fixed in Debian. A lighter-weight alternative would be reverting it in Debian (sans the icon changes I made) to the previous upstream version, which, while less performant, was much more stable. Another way of fixing this would be removing clipit completely and recommending users to switch over to diodon; maybe also automatically migrate them over? If you intend to take this package over, please please make sure that you actually can get it sorted, it is not a trivial job, as I have painfully learnt myself. As I described in #909309, given all this, I’m not very motivated to do any work myself since migrating to diodon have got my clipboard preserving needs sorted, at least for now. References: [0]: https://github.com/CristianHenzel/ClipIt [1]: https://packages.qa.debian.org/d/diodon.html [2]: https://github.com/rickyrockrat/parcellite/commits/master [3]: https://bugs.debian.org/941081 [4]: https://bugs.debian.org/909309 - -- Cheers, Andrej -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQFIBAEBCAAyFiEEeuS9ZL8A0js0NGiOXkCM2RzYOdIFAl6dZFgUHGFuZHJld3No QGRlYmlhbi5vcmcACgkQXkCM2RzYOdKTGwgAreBK6k1Br7PZS3SOWnRQC11Q0+SM 0tC4kuyE8BMNcDyaLuyI+VboCCgX6+RiO5MP1cSGcgLC56ErMWUCs/2kCdrSd2T6 VkT1TPCv4Osoz9xX4ymQ68wmnkuhQRlEoPm8sVvMsqLX2g86e1lNKv1PaNCgso0V Q6hcjoPZnKTdDnBvLpSAKOKTnpfotcgbdLsdbINP2tAM5HbXE139NBtDtxp+0D6T 3IaxoR+ScyQkC2y4+PPwZiMMGQwSbSPSMjctzgdr9CkU0WTVZ66x50RTEq660iQh n9ruosgiJtTh30HW7mfs6iKV54BVb2rrJ9laURicaih7X7iNOOUQD34SAw== =8lzZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----