[ubuntu-studio-devel] Future of Jamin

[Erich Eickmeyer]

Hi Ross,

On 1/5/21 8:28 AM, Ross Gammon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was taking a look at some of the build failures for our packages
> (archive rebuild for GCC-10), and Jamin is one that is failing.
>
> Upstream have not committed anything since 2015 (sourceforge) and I
> could not find a valid fork.
>
> Jamin was removed from Debian Testing in 2017 and nobody has stepped
> into maintain the package there (Jonas has stepped down). It was kicked
> out of testing for the same GCC-10 issue.
>
> It is likely that it will be removed from Debian.
>
> Should we preemptively remove Jamin from our seeds? I assume it's
> typical use case of taking over mastering from Ardour is no longer
> important?
>
> Regards,
>
> Ross

Probably not a bad idea. I'll remove it promptly. Bitrot is a thing. 
Looks like it's working on 20.04 but I don't really use it myself. 
Unless anybody objects, I'll go ahead and remove it.

UNRELATED: I'm applying for MOTU, would appreciate an endorsement. :) 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Eickmeyer/MOTUApplication

Erich
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