Bug#993922: amtk: abandoned upstream

[Simon McVittie]

Source: amtk
Version: 5.2.0-1
Severity: important
Tags: upstream wontfix
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-gtk-gnome at lists.debian.org
Control: block -1 by 993909
User: pkg-gnome-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs unmaintained-upstream

amtk has been frozen and archived upstream, and contributions are no longer
accepted. See https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/amtk and
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/-/issues/564 for
more details.

There seems to be a fork at https://github.com/gedit-org/amtk (along with
a fork of gedit) but it specifically does not accept contributions either.
This seems like something that Debian should not be relying on.

The versions of gedit and devhelp on GNOME infrastructure stopped using
amtk at the same time they stopped using tepl, which is in a similar
situation (see #993909).

I'll open bugs for the remaining packages that use amtk (genius, goodvibes
and gyrus). They will need to either stop using amtk, or fork it; if they
fork it, the former maintainer requests that they use a different name.

    smcv