Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.samoylyk.net!gothmog.csi.it!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Andreas Tille Newsgroups: linux.debian.bugs.dist,linux.debian.maint.java Subject: Bug#1098835: processing-core: Lagging heavily behind upstream - is it better to delete this package? Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 22:20:01 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-bugs-dist-request@lists.debian.org Mon Feb 24 21:18:09 2025 Old-Return-Path: X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -4.2 Reply-To: Andreas Tille , 1098835@bugs.debian.org Resent-To: debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org Resent-Cc: debian-java@lists.debian.org, ubuntu@rossfamily.co.uk, Debian Java Maintainers X-Debian-Pr-Message: report 1098835 X-Debian-Pr-Package: src:processing-core X-Debian-Pr-Source: processing-core Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: reportbug 13.1.0 X-Debian-Message: from BTS X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1889235 List-ID: List-URL: Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 32 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 22:15:31 +0100 X-Original-Message-ID: <174043173199.981400.2107975804381470439.reportbug@energija.fam-tille.de> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.bugs.dist:1234872 linux.debian.maint.java:12939 Source: processing-core Version: 1.2.1-2 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-java@lists.debian.org, Andrew Ross Hi, when fixing Vcs fields I realised that processing-core moved from googlecode to Github which remained undetected due to an outdated watch file. Updating the watch file showed that upstream is now at version 4.3. Packaging wise this probably needs to start from scratch. If nobody might pick up this task I wonder whether it might be better to rather delete this package. Users most probably do not want to install software that is aged 14 years while there are new upstream versions of recent code published very regularly. Kind regards Andreas. -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (501, 'testing'), (50, 'buildd-unstable'), (50, 'unstable'), (5, 'experimental'), (1, 'buildd-experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.12.12-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE:de Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled