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Bug#989005: RM: aewm -- RoQA; dead upstream; unmaintained; very low popcon

From	Pino Toscano <pino@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject	Bug#989005: RM: aewm -- RoQA; dead upstream; unmaintained; very low popcon
Date	2021-05-23 09:00 +0200
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Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal

Hi,

aewm has not seen a new upstream release since 2007, and upstream
seems to have stopped working on it long long time ago.
Furthermore:
- the upstream website is not available anymore
- I cannot find anywhere a potential repository that continues the
  development
- it has been "maintained" in Debian with NMUs/QA uploads since 2011
- uses old tech/libs (GTK+ 2)
- it has a very low popcon count (38 at the time I'm writing this)
- plenty of alternatives ("minimalist/lightweights" WMs) exist

Hence, it looks to me it would be a better idea to simply remove aewm
from Debian.

Thanks,
-- 
Pino

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