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Bug#988667: cowsay: New possible project upstream

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Package: cowsay
Version: 3.03+dfsg2-8
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: garethpulham@gmail.com,floss@apjanke.net

Dear Maintainer,

Debian includes the package cowsay, but the upstream of the project has
been unavailable now for some time, with only an archive.org reference
available at https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/cowsay .

Looking around identified another repository maintained by apjanke, at
https://github.com/cowsay-org/cowsay . This repo appears to be a
continuation rather than a "competitive" fork of the original codebase,
maintained in the spirit of the original author, with some minor updates
such as the inclusion of some debian patches. I request that this
repository be considered as the new upstream of the Debian package.

I have spoken to apjanke who confirms the above, as well as a
willingness to continue in this role, and approval at being nominated as
the new upstream - I have included him as a cc in this bug.

Thanks for your continued support of Debian and for considering this
bug.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing-security
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages cowsay depends on:
ii  libtext-charwidth-perl  0.04-10+b1
ii  perl                    5.32.1-4

cowsay recommends no packages.

Versions of packages cowsay suggests:
pn  cowsay-off  <none>
pn  filters     <none>

-- no debconf information

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Bug#988667: cowsay: New possible project upstream Gareth Pulham <garethpulham@gmail.com> - 2021-05-17 18:20 +0200
  Bug#988667: cowsay: New possible project upstream Andrew Janke <floss@apjanke.net> - 2021-05-17 18:40 +0200

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