The maintainers of the xmms package in Debian are proposing the removal of the aforementioned package. Please read on.
1. Rationale * Upstream has deprecated development and support for the current version of XMMS. * Several parts of the application are broken and no longer of Debian quality. 2. Current status * The BTS reports 231 bugs, most tagged 'important' or 'normal', and a couple of debugging was attempted with little success. * XMMS is broken in several aspects, one of the most important being it's dependence on GTK+ 1.2 and no UTF-8 support, which is standard in Debian Etch. * Other distributions have already discussed XMMS removal. Gentoo hardmasked the package based on the same rationale [1] * 'bmpx' and 'audacious' are in Debian, ranks 8048 and 3649 in popcon. Both are very good and development-active substitutes to xmms. * There's also in Debian the upstream-supported xmms2 package, 2598 in popcon rank. 2.1 Reverse depends The following packages depend on XMMS: xmms-liveice xmms-festalon xmp-xmms xmmsctrl xmms-xf86audio xmms-wmdiscotux xmms-wma xmms-volnorm xmms-synaesthesia xmms-stats xmms-speex xmms-skins xmms-singit xmms-sid xmms-shell xmms-scrobbler xmms-rplay xmms-qbble xmms-osd-plugin xmms-openspc xmms-oggre xmms-musepack xmms-msa xmms-mpg123-ja xmms-mp4 xmms-modplug xmms-mad xmms-lirc xmms-ladspa xmms-kjofol xmms-kde xmms-jess xmms-jackasyn xmms-iris xmms-infopipe xmms-infinity xmms-goom xmms-goodnight xmms-gbs xmms-fmradio xmms-flac xmms-finespectrum xmms-find xmms-dev xmms-dbmix xmms-crossfade xmms-coverviewer xmms-cdread xmms-bumpscope xmms-blursk xmms-arts xmms-alarm xmms-adplug |xfce4-xmms-plugin wmusic superkaramba smpeg-xmms shermans-aquarium rep-xmms python-xmms playground-plugin-xmms |peercast-handlers madman logjam-xmms libxmms-ruby libxmms-perl kvirc2 karamba kadu-external-modules junior-sound imms hotkeys gnump3d gnomp3 gkrellmms gjay gdesklets-data gdancer gaim-xmms-remote |fvwm-crystal extace education-standalone education-music education-desktop-other Most of this packages are xmms plugins. Maintainers will need to port them to xmms2 or bmpx, or they should be removed. Other packages just depend on xmms as a mere multimedia player, and therefore we recommend the maintainers to adjust their dependencies to bmpx, xmms2 or audacious. 2.2 Popcon xmms is now 1069 in the overall popcon rank, with 11029 installations, not counting the plugin users. Yours, the XMMS maintainers [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/sound/xmms.xml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
