Hi Jeroen!

Jeroen van Wolffelaar [2005-11-21  1:00 +0100]:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 12:19:45PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > polypaudio is dead upstream for a year now. It was intended to be the
> > esound successor, but since it will not be used in Gnome upstream,
> > development ceased. Therefore it should not be shipped in a stable
> > Debian release which is supported for several years.
> > 
> > Otavio and I agreed to completely drop the package for now from both
> > testing and unstable.
> 
> gst-plugins0.8 still build-depends on it though. Shouldn't that package
> first be fixed, or at least, a bug filed on it? Otherwise it'd instantly
> become buggy.

The latest gst-plugins0.8 package drops the polypaudio backend now and
with it the build dependency. [1]

Thank you and have a merry christmas!

Martin

[1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gst-plugins0.8/news/1.html

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