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#37
Originally Posted by djdas View Post
But support from a distribution is different from support from a vendor. You could even recompile your program under Wheezy and use it as always...
You wanted an example of an "important" OSS project being dropped :-)

<off-topic>I tried rebuilding it myself but it turns out that the sources available on the author's website require extra libraries not available in Wheezy (probably why it was dropped from there). Not an insurmountable task but a lot of hassle nevertheless. As a result, I am still without my important program.</off-topic>