do you know who "they" are and where did you read about this? I've been missing aisleriot too, so much so that I e-mailed the guy responsible for the OS2007 package yesterday, but didn't hear anything back yet.

I also tried building aisleriot for the Os2008 from scratch using the latest sources from gnome-games and version 1.6 of guile (the interpreted language the supplies the rules for the card games). It compiles with only minor changes to the source. However, it's a big job to make the debs becaues the gnome-games repo doesn't contain any of the packaging scripts and the game was split into several packages on OS2007.

Its really frustrating when packagers treat their debian packaging scripts as proprietary and don't supply them with the sources of GPLed software they are distributing.