[Mageia-sysadm] Package removal request

Ahmad Samir ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com
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


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