[Pkg-allegro-maintainers] Bug#671378: Remove libalogg1?

[Ana Guerrero]

reassign 671378 ftp.debian.org
severity 671378 normal
retitle 671378 RM: alogg -- RoQA; dead upstream, RC-buggy
thanks


On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 06:04:52PM +0200, Tobias Hansen wrote:
> Source: libalogg1
> Version: 1.3.7-1.1
> Severity: serious
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> Hi,
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> I'm involved in the transition towards Allegro 4.4 [1] and libalogg1 currently FTBFS against Allegro 4.4, because we removed allegro-makedoc from liballegro-dev.
> 
> I'm wondering if we still need this package. It has no reverse dependencies in Debian and the upstream website doesn't exist anymore. Googling for it, I didn't
> find a new upstream website or hints that libalogg is still used. Allegro 4.4 is now a legacy library, that we keep for the existing games, Allegro 5 has its own
> ogg support. Also there is a different ogg library, liblogg, bundled with Allegro 4.4 an maintained by the Allegro developers. We didn't package it (yet), because
> we're not aware of it being needed.
> 
> If you are aware of any packages or important programs using libalogg, or if you don't agree with the removal for other reasons, please let me know and close this
> bug report. Otherwise, do you agree with me reassigning the bug to ftp.debian.org to pursue the removal?
> 
> Best regards,
> Tobias
> 
> [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2012/05/msg00002.html
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