Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: freeze-exception
Dear release team, Please consider a release exception for my package ncdc [1]. While this package is new in Debian, the project has long history [2], program is stable and well tested in other GNU/Linux distros [3], upstream is active and responsive. Once ncdc package migrates to Debian Bullseye I'll open a removal request for package microdc2 [4]: + project is dead: * official website does not exist anymore * last release (0.15.6) was in 2006 [5] * last commit to git repo was 2013 [6] * git repository has been explicitly marked as archived * upstream developer is not responsive + package is unmaintained [7] Now microdc2 package does not have known RC bugs and its removal is not urgent yet, but besides dead upstream there are few additional reasons for this: * program does not support modern ADC protocol while in Debian repository there is server software [8] only for this protocol * program lucks a lot of features required by regular users (for example, connecting to multiple hubs at the same time, etc.) * ncdc fills the same niche (command line DC client) and has a lot of features absent in microdc2 [1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ncdc [2] https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdc/changes [3] https://repology.org/project/ncdc/versions [4] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/microdc2 [5] https://github.com/jnwatts/microdc2#news [6] https://github.com/jnwatts/microdc2/commits/master [7] https://bugs.debian.org/980954 [8] https://wiki.debian.org/Direct_Connect Best regards, Boris
