Time to orphan libquicktime?

[Alessio Treglia]

Hello Burkhard,

How are you? I hope you're doing well.

As you can see from the following discussion, the Debian Multimedia
Maintainers team (essentially the group of people who take care about
libav, libquicktime and gmerlin - and many more - within Debian) are
concerned about the libquicktime's upstream status of work:

On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at gmail.com> wrote:
> I notice that we both are listed as co-maintainers of the libqucktime
> package. However, while working on #739325, I noticed that
> libquicktime exposes a lot of very delicate and intimate knobs of
> libavcodec, many of which have been removed by now. This tells me that
> maintaining libquicktime needs quite a bit of knowledge of both the
> libquicktime as well as the libav codebase.
>
> Give that there hasn't been any upstream activity in years, I presume
> that libquicktime is rather dead upstream, which is very unfortunate.
> Maybe we should phase it out of Debian, but I'm not sure about it. I
> do know for sure that I certainly don't have the time, energy and
> resources to care for it anymore, and I there wonder if you would
> agree to orphan this package for now?

Can you please give us any information?
Do you (or any other of the upstream's team behind libquicktime) have
a development plan for it?

I look forward to hearing from you,
Regards.

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