severity 992805 normal
thanks
El 23/8/21 a las 18:43, Chris Hofstaedtler escribió:
Source: bplay
Hi,
it appears bplay is an audio player for RIFF and VOC files. To play
these files, it uses /dev/dsp, an OSS relic. Using it nowadays would
require wrapping it in aoss (alsa-oss).
Such wrapping boils down to
modprobe snd-pcm-oss
which is quite trivial to do.
I'm wondering if it makes sense to ship bplay in bookworm?
The program still works, and it could be used to test that the snd-pcm-oss
kernel module (which we still provide) works, so it's not completely useless.
Upstream appears to have vanished sometime in or before 2007 (>13
years ago) and no Debian uploads happened either.
There was a NMU by Joao Eriberto Mota Filho (in the CC)
to make the package fit for bookworm.
Since the package has no other RC bugs and it works, I think we
can reconsider about this removal after that, if only as
a way to respect the work of those who bothered to NMU the
package to fit bookworm standards.
If no one speaks up, I'll ask for removal sooner or later.
Well, the problem with this is that nobody really notices
such "if no one speaks up" until it's too late.
If the maintainer is MIA, then the package should be declared orphaned,
so that somebody else can maintain it if there is some interest.
Thanks.
