Comment 69 for bug 1662544

Unfortunately, nobody with commit access has actually updated the code or released anything in over 3 years now. This has led to a situation where distro maintainers have had a hard choice.

Either drop the package, which no-one has wanted to do because they and their distro users still find it extremely handy, or maintain their own python3 patch sets.

the truth is, nobody, not even ubuntu, is running the code directly from this bzr repo anymore. the only reason terminator is still widely available at all is because the various maintainers have put in the work to keep the code up-to-date.

Seeing that at least three of us were doing parallel work to keep terminator working on our various distros @lazyfrosch took the brave step of porting the code to somewhere where we could effectively stop duplicating our efforts, and instead work on the code together.

If you read through this bug, and https://bugs.launchpad.net/terminator/+bug/1849375 you can see that nobody wanted to do this, but frankly, it came down to either forking the project, or letting it die, and enough people wanted it not to die that a fork was deemed the only alternative.