Re: Packages not making it into testing (fwd)
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Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 12:25:04 +0200 (CEST)
From: Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@auryn.jones.dk>
To: Daniel Kobras <kobras@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de>
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Packages not making it into testing
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Daniel Kobras wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:41:46PM +0300, Tommi Virtanen wrote:
> > Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
> >
> > > + mpg123 uploaded 125 days ago, out of date by 115 days!
> > > mpg123-alsa is uninstallable (needs alsa-base 0.4, which is no
> > > longer available?)
> >
> > mpg123 won't work with the newer ALSA, and there seems to be
> > no real mpg123 activity. I'll drop ALSA support when I get time
> > to update the package (not very soon).
>
> Current mix of alsa-headers and -libs doesn't allow you to build anything
> on unstable anyway. If you want some help on that package drop me a note.
> I've hacked on mpg123 before, and we're in the process of getting ALSA
> 0.9 support into Glame at the moment.
Quite interesting!
If you need testers speak up, I have ALSA running on my powerpc TiBook now
that 0.9 with powerpc drivers has been released.
- Jonas
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