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Peercast in Debian ?
Friday 5 March 2010, by
Peercast is a streaming server developed in order to share the bandwidth for streaming, using a peer-to-peer paradigm.
It was one of my first package and I have always been very enthusiastic about it. Later on, I also packaged geekast, an interface for peercast made by Frédéric Logier.
However, the upstream developer of peercast has always been very busy with his other projects and the last version, 0.1218 was released in december 2007, which is quite a long time.
I am not sure about the future of peercast in Debian and in particular the next stable release. I do not use the software anymore, but it seems to have some users at least. Also, I do not know any available alternative...
As for now, I am about to drop this package and possibly ask for its removal from testing, as well as geekast. However, I would like to know if there might be some user/maintainer interested by it before I do this move..
So if you care about peercast or geekast and would like to take it over, please let me know !!

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