xxms into universe?

[Martin Pitt]

Hi Kees,

Kees Cook [2007-05-14 14:51 -0700]:
> It is in main due to build-deps in "flac" and "kdeutils".  "flac" 
> produces "xmms-flac" which is in universe, and "kdeutils" produces 
> "superkaramba" which is in universe, and just uses xmms-dev as an option 
> feature.

Sounds easy enough to kill then.

> Additionally, when xmms is no longer in main, the only package still 
> keeping gtk1.2 in main will be "evms-gui", if I'm reading correctly.

In Dapper I found and applied a patch to it to use GTK 2, and Debian
took it too. It's still in edgy. It was dropped in Feisty in

evms (2.5.5-17) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Revert the GTK+ 2.0 patch; it's too buggy, there's no upstream support
    (and upstream doesn't look like they'll pull it in anytime soon, even
    after nagging) and it doesn't really buy us much except looks anyhow.
    We don't really have the resources to maintain this patch externally from
    upstream, so it's better just to remove it.
    (Closes: #385706, #386598, #385708, #385710, #386096)

 -- Steinar H. Gunderson <sesse at debian.org>  Fri,  8 Sep 2006 23:36:50 +0200

The problem is worse for us because it forces us to support the gtk
1.2 stack just for this. I haven't looked at the bugs yet, though.

> So, I'd like to propose the following changes:
> - remove the "xmms-flac" package from "flac" (as well as the "xmms-dev" 
>   build-dep).
> - remove the "xmms-dev" build-dep from kdeutils (as well as the "xmms" 
>   suggests from superkaramba).
> - move xmms into universe

Sounds good to me, although totally dropping xmms should still be
considered if it is really that unmaintained and vulnerable. We have
one or two other music players in the archive after all...

Martin

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