package removal explanation?

[Christopher Halse Rogers]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Dustin Kirkland
<dustin.kirkland at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
The Debian discussion[1] is probably most informative.  If I remember
correctly, we removed it in response to Debian removing it.
Highlights are: gtk-1.2, no UTF-8 support, hundreds of longstanding
bugs.

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/07/msg00026.html