package removal explanation?

[Scott Kitterman]

On Tuesday 11 November 2008 19:15, Dustin Kirkland 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.
>
I find:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xmms/+bug/190684

But the real reason appears to be it was removed from Debian:

http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xmms.html

We generally follow their removals.  I looked and it's not on the sync 
blacklist, so if it reappeared in Debian, we'd get it back too.

Scott K