Hy guys, Em dom., 12 de fev. de 2023 às 10:31, Santiago Vila <sanv...@debian.org> escreveu: > > 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.
My NMU was a technical work only, an effort to reduce the RC bugs number. I don't use bplay. Feel free to make the best for Debian. Cheers, Eriberto
