In March 2005, the maintainer of the program, Gustavo Niemeyer, announced that he would not continue developing it and that he would instead focus on Smart Package Manager, which was planned as a successor to APT-RPM.
2005年3月，這個程式的維護者，Gustavo Niemeyer，宣佈他將不會繼續開發這個程式，並將會專注於Smart軟體包管理器，其計畫成為APT-RPM的繼承者。