Bug#1039902: fenix: Should this package be removed?

Bastian Germann bage at debian.org
Mon Aug 21 17:40:49 BST 2023


Control: retitle -1 RM: fenix -- ROM (team); 64bit-incompatible
Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org
Control: severity -1 normal

On Thu, 29 Jun 2023 11:39:19 +0100 Simon McVittie wrote:
> The fenix game development framework does not seem to be in a good state:
> 
> - no apparent activity upstream (https://sourceforge.net/projects/fenix/)
>   since at least 2013, and no commits in
>   https://sourceforge.net/p/fenix/code/HEAD/tree/ since 2008
> - an architectural assumption that pointers are <= 32-bit (#456037)
> - based on the deprecated SDL 1.2 (#1038340)
> 
> Are the two games that depend on it (pixbros and pixfrogger, both most
> recently uploaded by a maintainer in 2016) sufficiently important to
> justify the amount of QA time that this family of packages takes up?
> 
> I think it might be time to remove these packages from Debian.

The games are now gone. Please remove fenix.



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