Bug#992805: bplay - ship with bookworm?
Em dom., 12 de fev. de 2023 às 15:24, Santiago Vila escreveu: > > El 12/2/23 a las 16:33, Eriberto escribió: > > 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. > > Ok, I also do QA uploads for purely technical reasons. > > My concern is that this procedure to remove a package is suboptimal, > as we seem to be declaring the maintainer MIA and the package orphaned, > all at the same time. > > I suggest that to remove a package from a maintainer which seems to be MIA, > the package should be orphaned first, giving the opportunity for someone else > to take over the package. I agree.
Bug#992805: bplay - ship with bookworm?
El 12/2/23 a las 16:33, Eriberto escribió: 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. Ok, I also do QA uploads for purely technical reasons. My concern is that this procedure to remove a package is suboptimal, as we seem to be declaring the maintainer MIA and the package orphaned, all at the same time. I suggest that to remove a package from a maintainer which seems to be MIA, the package should be orphaned first, giving the opportunity for someone else to take over the package. Thanks.
Bug#992805: bplay - ship with bookworm?
Hy guys, Em dom., 12 de fev. de 2023 às 10:31, Santiago Vila 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
Bug#992805: bplay - ship with bookworm?
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.
Bug#992805: bplay - ship with bookworm?
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). I'm wondering if it makes sense to ship bplay in bookworm? Upstream appears to have vanished sometime in or before 2007 (>13 years ago) and no Debian uploads happened either. If no one speaks up, I'll ask for removal sooner or later. Best, Chris
