[Mageia-sysadm] Package removal request

Mon May 9 11:09:32 CEST 2011

'Twas brillig, and Ahmad Samir at 07/05/11 22:30 did gyre and gimble:
+> On 3 March 2011 03:31, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com> wrote:
+>> Please remove esound binary and src packages:
+>> esound-utils
+>> lib*esound-devel
+>> lib*esound0
+>>
+>>
+>> As has been discussed on the -dev ML, esound should be phased out from
+>> the distro.
+>>
+>> I've rebuilt all the packages that had BR esound-devel, and now
+>> nothing requires it in Mageia. (I am wondering if it should be added
+>> to the import-to-svn blacklist, to prevent it being resubmitted).
+>>
+>> I think it should be left in SVN for a while though.
+>>
+>> --
+>> Ahmad Samir
+>>
+> 
+> This request was lost in the ML; and now two packages were built
+> against esound-devel.
+> 
+> If the esound phasing sounds logical at this stage, I can try building
+> those two packages without esound, but then you gotta promise to add
+> esound to the blacklist...
+> 
+
+I'm certainly all in favour of this! Death to esound!!!
+
+Col
+
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