FS#70754 - Termite is unmaintained, consider dropping it and its terminfo from the official repositories

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by j-james (j-james) - Saturday, 08 May 2021, 09:12 GMT
Last edited by freswa (frederik) - Wednesday, 27 October 2021, 00:47 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Jelle van der Waa (jelly)
Felix Yan (felixonmars)
freswa (frederik)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

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Closed by  freswa (frederik)
Wednesday, 27 October 2021, 00:47 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Comment by Michal Wojdyla (micwoj92) - Saturday, 08 May 2021, 09:59 GMT
Uhm but why? It's still usable and pretty popular terminal and the announcement was just posted yesterday. There are many "unmaintained" packages in repos which don't see upstream activity for years yet still build and function fine and are widely used.
Comment by j-james (j-james) - Monday, 10 May 2021, 03:11 GMT
My thought was that having it in the official repos might do more harm than good, since terminals are such a security-critical part of the system, and since it was directly superseded by Alacritty. Removing it wouldn't affect anyone who has it installed, but would make new users lean towards an actively developed alternative.

I don't feel strongly one way or another, though, but I just wanted to throw this out there.
Comment by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Friday, 14 May 2021, 21:58 GMT
See the updated .install message, termite will be dropped in the future

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