Comment 33 for bug 74647

> It is not dead, watch the commits. We are focusing on 2.1 release.

That's indeed a good news. Thanks for the heads up.

> I won't have the time to do it. It is in 5.3, if only 5.3 had made it
> to the last release. However it could be a definitive *huge* plus for
> your users to finally have something usable for gd and php.

I'll try to poke other Debian maintainers. Although if you could pinpoint related CVS commit, it would be great.

BTW: are you aware that 5.3.0 has broken compatibility layer? probably you are, if not ping me, I'll send you a patch.