package removal explanation?

[Dustin Kirkland]

Can anyone point me to documentation or mailing list discussion as to
why xmms was removed from Ubuntu universe?
 * https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xmms

I mean, I know that upstream for the project is essentially dead, and
there are tons of other alternative music players available.

But xmms remains rock-solid for my use cases (streaming over http),
and I continue to build it in my PPA for each Ubuntu release.

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:-Dustin