On 06/05/2021 14:58, IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU) wrote:
what makes you think so?
have you contacted them?
No, I haven't contacted them directly, but because of these reasons:
* I sent this request one year ago to update opusfile, without an answer
o https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=935591#10
* I sent this request one year ago to update opus-tools, without an answer
o https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=910261#10
* I sent this request one year ago to update Speex and SpeexDSP,
without an answer
o https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=949717
* A request 10 months ago to update xf86-input-wacom, without an answer
o https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=964106
* opus had to be NMUed to 1.3.1-0.1
<https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=934809>
o https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=934809
* libogg had to be NMUed to 1.3.4-0.1
<https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=894158>
o https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=894158
* All these issues (filed 10 months ago) will block the removal of
debhelper compat 5 and 6 in bookworm, all without answers:
o https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=965759
o https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=965762
o https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=965897
o https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=965827
o https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=965733
o https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=965673
And in general the maintainer did not touch their packages in ~3 years.
That's why I concluded that the maintainer could have lost interest in
maintaining their packages.