Source: fenix Severity: important Tags: trixie sid X-Debbugs-Cc: pixb...@packages.debian.org, pixfrog...@packages.debian.org, Peter Pentchev <r...@debian.org> Control: affects -1 + src:pixbros src:pixfrogger src:fenix-plugins
The fenix game development framework does not seem to be in a good state: - no apparent activity upstream (https://sourceforge.net/projects/fenix/) since at least 2013, and no commits in https://sourceforge.net/p/fenix/code/HEAD/tree/ since 2008 - an architectural assumption that pointers are <= 32-bit (#456037) - based on the deprecated SDL 1.2 (#1038340) Are the two games that depend on it (pixbros and pixfrogger, both most recently uploaded by a maintainer in 2016) sufficiently important to justify the amount of QA time that this family of packages takes up? I think it might be time to remove these packages from Debian. (The reason I'm looking at them now is that fenix FTBFS with libsdl1.2-compat-dev and is risking blocking the transition to sdl12-compat, so I'm going to do one more upload to fix that, if the solution I have in mind works successfully.) smcv
