Hi Debian, Assistance GNUisances team here :) We currently have 2 people listed as GNU RCS maintainers: Amin Bandali and Paul Eggert (both CC'd). Amin volunteered after Thien-Thi's fatal accident and Paul seems to have been an RCS maintainer even before Thien-Thi became one.
A quick glance at the archives of one of RCS mailing lists shows that at least Paul is still active [1]. [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-rcs/ For managing hierarchy of files in something like a software project everyone is likely to pick a modern VCS like Git or Mercurial, I agree. Nonetheless, I've recently met with opinion that there's no better single-file VCS than RCS. So there's at least this niche use case. Hope this helps. Best! Wojtek -- W. Kosior website: https://koszko.org/koszko.html fediverse: https://friendica.me/profile/koszko/profile PGP fingerprint: E972 7060 E3C5 637C 8A4F 4B42 4BC5 221C 5A79 FD1A On Fri, 07 Feb 2025 18:45:09 +0100 Romain Francoise <rfranco...@debian.org> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-Cc: r...@packages.debian.org > Control: affects -1 + src:rcs > > I intend to orphan the rcs package. It is in good shape from the Debian > perspective, however the software itself can now be considered legacy. > Unfortunately the upstream maintainer passed away a few months ago and > it's not clear that RCS will be picked up by someone else in the GNU > project. > > I guess the package could also be removed along with its reverse > dependencies to no great loss to the project as a whole. > > The package description is: > The Revision Control System (RCS) manages multiple > revisions of files. RCS automates the storing, retrieval, > logging, identification, and merging of revisions. RCS is > useful for text that is revised frequently, for example > programs, documentation, graphics, papers, and form letters. > . > Note: this package contains certain general-purpose commands > (such as merge or ident) which may used by other programs > installed on your system. >
