[Mageia-sysadm] Package removal request

Mon May 9 17:58:04 CEST 2011

On 9 May 2011 13:47, Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
+> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 10:36, nicolas vigier <boklm at mars-attacks.org> wrote:
+>> On Mon, 09 May 2011, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+>>
+>>> '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!!!
+>>
+>> I removed esound from the repository. You can now rebuild packages that
+>> were built against esound-devel.
+>
+> http://check.mageia.org/dependencies.html
+>
+> 10 packages buildrequire esound-devel
+>
+> SDL12
+> SDL_mixer
+> blender
+> bumprace
+> csmash
+> gkrellm-plugins
+> libmikmod
+> rocksndiamonds
+> soundwrapper
+> tritonus
+>
+> Including 2 which are linked against the lib :
+>
+> gkrellm-plugins
+> tritonus
+
+I could only spot the ones that linked against the lib; urpmf can't catch BR..
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+