Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian
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
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