On 2024-03-28 Peter B <pe...@pblackman.plus.com> wrote: > On 27/03/2024 14:57, Andreas Metzler wrote: >> mpg321 is dead upstream > I don't see that as a show stopper.
>> Please consider moving to another player, e.g. mpg123. > I moved away from ffmpeg after c-evo-dh showed a puiparts fail > stemming from libnettle8. c-evo-dh does not use any crypto stuff, > that library was brought in by ffmpeg. > I picked mpg321 over mpg123 because it it has fewer dependencies. Hello Peter, > Also, mpg123 is broken > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1067562 it works perfectly fine in trixie and both maintainers and upstream are actively working together to resolve the issue in sid. > mpg321 uses fixed point arithmetic, and is likely to be a better > choice on low spec architectures with no floating point (armel). > I would prefer to keep mpg321 as the sound option for c-evo-dh > Noting the user-tag mpg321-removal on your bug report, > I could instead maintain mpg321 myself if it were orphaned... I recently had a look at mpg321 because it had a FTBFS bug, I hotfixed this by NMU and looking at the package got the distinct impression of having stumbled over a package that we would better be off without in trixie. There are loads of old bugs including rather severe ones at first glance. The fact that the packaging is very dated is not the real problem (Updating to dh could probably be done in in an , since it os basically a single binary package.) There is just a lot of technical debt due to missing upstream, it does not need maintainership but a new upstream author. On my local system there simply is no sound output, I suspect it cannot work when pipewire or pulseaudio is used. cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'
