[pkg-fgfs-crew] Status of FGo!

[Markus Wanner]

Florent,

On 12/22/2015 01:00 PM, Florent Rougon wrote:
> Given that FGo!'s upstream appears to be inactive these days, I suspect
> that waiting for a new upstream release before uploading this tiny fix
> could last a very long time. Therefore, even if the change is really
> minor, people able to sponsor (Markus, maybe Scott?) might want to
> upload the fixed package... (debian/changelog needs to have 'UNRELEASED'
> replaced with 'unstable')

Thanks! I finally sponsored that upload, sorry for it taking so long.

> Which leads me to the real subject of this e-mail: I am not sure if I
> should stay in FGo!'s Uploader's field. On the one hand, I am willing to
> help if for instance some Python problem would prevent the package from
> building, or other stuff like that. On the other hand, the lack of
> upstream activity and my inability to contact him for almost a year now,
> despite good relations all along, led me to pursue his work under the
> name FFGo, in order to avoid confusion. FFGo has Python 3 support, many
> new features compared to FGo!, as well as a few bug fixes (FGo! doesn't
> have many bugs). This is what I am working on, and thus pretending I am
> still working on FGo! is a bit overstretched.

Sounds like we might want to orphan fgo some time (before the stretch
release). Do you want me to upload ffgo to Debian unstable (IIUC you
already provide the packaging)?

Regards

Markus