Hello Rik, Thank you for the clarity, precision, and seriousness of your message.
This was sorely lacking in some of the previous replies… I forwarded this information to the official KDE developers via their mailing list. I also pointed out to them that Debian suffers from a chronic lack of maintainers and suggested they try to help / support you as best they can. I hope they can provide you with human resources and thus help you maintain their program library under Debian. I must say that I am greatly surprised that, it seems, no one has asked them for help before this. The Debian maintainers who are volunteers who also have a job, a family, friends, a life to live... There are only 24 hours in a day. They can't be in the oven and at the mill as we say in French... In addition to the Ubuntu and kernel developers, who sometimes wear both hats and also help you maintain Debian, you should generally seek out other developers to help you. The Gnome developers for the official Debian desktop environment, the Linux Mint developers for the Cinnamon desktop, the KDE developers, etc., could help you maintain Debian, don't you think? In my opinion, this is the only way you can ensure you have sufficient human resources available and that the project we all care about will continue over time while maintaining quality... because that's the problem: if we lose software, we'll also lose the few users that Debian has struggled to attract over time. Best regards. Envoyé avec un e-mail sécurisé Proton Mail. Le vendredi 22 août 2025 à 12:18, Rik Mills <[email protected]> a écrit : > On 22/08/2025 09:33, phil995511 wrote: > > > If anyone can tell me the procedure to follow to get SoundConvertor > > reintegrated into Debian, I would be extremely grateful. > > > Get it maintained upstream and ported to Qt6/KF6, with a reasonable > expectation that upstream will continue to take care of the source. This > is the job of upstream maintainers, not debian developers/maintainers. > > It looks like the 8 year old dead upstream Qt5 version cannot now be > built in Debian due to required build dependencies either being > incompatible with that old version, or not existing any more in debian > either. Hence why these things rightly get removed.
