xxms into universe?

[Thilo Six]

Stephan Hermann wrote the following on 27.05.2007 11:08

>> I'd like to propose moving xmms into universe.  There is no longer
>> any upstream development[1] (and as such, security vulnerabilities
>> aren't being fixed -- I created the most recent patch for the skin
>> loader vuln).  Debian's package has been recently adopted, otherwise
>> I'd be proposing dropping it from the repository totally.  :)
> 
> Well, we can leave xmms in universe for at least one release cycle
> (reads: Gutsy still have it in universe), and gutsy+1 won't have it
> anymore.
> 
> I think we have a bright choice of media players right now (rythmbox,
> amarok to name only the two big ones for ubuntu and kubuntu).
> 
> 
>> 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
> 
> Agreed and second.
> 
> Regards,
> \sh

even Gentoo has purged xmms from their tree (i think half year ago).
But when we decide to go for removing xmms we probably want to make a
corresponding announce via UWN in advance to prepare users for it.

http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20061030-newsletter.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/sound/xmms.xml

otherwise you will get many bugreports for it - promised.

bye Thilo
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