Hi Laurent,
On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 01:14:24AM +0100, bi...@debian.org wrote:
> Source: libao
> Version: 1.2.2-1
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: sid buster
> User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: esd-removal
>
> Dear maintainer,
>
> Your package is {build-}depending against esound which is deprecated
> for quite some times now.
>
> We are planning to remove esound for Buster if possible.
>
> Could you please verify that this dependency is mandatory and if it's
> not the case, could you please remove it?
There is no hard requirement on esound for libao, it's just one of
many supported audio subsystems which it has plugin support for.
So if libesd is being removed from Debian, it's an easy enough change
to just not build that plugin for Buster+. I won't do that until the
current freeze is over so we still have an easy path through unstable
if anything urgent does need updating in this - but you can put this
one on your easy list for the Buster cycle.
Cheers,
Ron
