ftp.debian.org: Please remove polypaudio

Martin Pitt mpitt at debian.org
Mon Nov 21 07:41:42 UTC 2005


Hi!

Jeroen van Wolffelaar [2005-11-21  1:00 +0100]:
> > polypaudio is dead upstream for a year now. It was intended to be the
> > esound successor, but since it will not be used in Gnome upstream,
> > development ceased. Therefore it should not be shipped in a stable
> > Debian release which is supported for several years.
> > 
> > Otavio and I agreed to completely drop the package for now from both
> > testing and unstable.
> 
> gst-plugins0.8 still build-depends on it though. Shouldn't that package
> first be fixed, or at least, a bug filed on it? Otherwise it'd instantly
> become buggy.

Right, I wasn't aware that the Debian version still uses it. David,
Loic, can you please drop the polypaudio sink? We tried it in Ubuntu
for a while, but it has never really worked.

Thanks!

Martin
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