I request an adopter for the autogen package.

The package description is:
 AutoGen is a tool designed for generating program files that contain
 repetitive text with varied substitutions. This is especially valuable if
 there are several blocks of such text that must be kept synchronized.
 .
 Included with AutoGen is a tool that virtually eliminates the hassle of
 processing options, keeping usage text up to date and so on. This tool
 allows you to specify several program attributes, innumerable options and
 option attributes, then it produces all the code necessary to parse and
 handle the command line and initialization file options.
 .
 This package contains the development tools. libopts25-dev contains the
 static libraries and header files. libopts25 contains the shared libraries.
 autogen-doc contains the PostScript and HTML documentation.

I adopted this about 10 years ago because it was a gnutls
build-dependency. GnuTLS has switched away in January, so I am not using
it anymore.

cu Andreas

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Hello,

Please note that autogen is nearing EOL. It is also pretty complicated
internally (guile, C code, shell scripting). I will probably look into
submitting bug reports against rdeps so they know they need to move on.

cu Andreas

On 2024-02-18 Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de> wrote:
[...]

Hello,

I have now submitted bugs against the packages build-depending on it
(except for the gcc-9 packages which are scheduled for removal).

https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?user=ametzler%40debian.org&tag=autogen-eol

cu Andreas

I intend to adopt this package.

Upstream appears to be still alive (although barely) [1]. At least the
upstream author is still active. Otherwise, I can provide hospice care
for this package.

[1] https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?group=autogen