Time to orphan libquicktime?

[IOhannes m zmölnig]

On 03/17/2014 12:34 PM, Alessio Treglia wrote:
> How are you? I hope you're doing well.

thanks alessio for asking burkhard.

it seems, that he did not include the list in his answer, so i forward
it (with his permission):

On 04/02/2014 06:23 PM, Burkhard Plaum wrote:>
> Well I wouldn't consider it dead, since I still receive and apply
> patches. Official releases however are rare nowadays, that's right.
>
> There are quite a number of users and patch submitters, mostly people
> within companies developing in-house tools (the most prominent is
> Pixar).
>
> The point is, that I don't use it personally anymore and thus don't
> actively hack on it. In my opinion it's too specific to be considered
> a "mainstream" library but too precious to be abandoned. If I'd find
> someone, who could take over maintainership without screwing it up,
> I'd happily give it away.
>
> For debian packagers I cannot give an advice. Are there any other
> packages depending on libquicktime?"


mfgdsar
IOhannes

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