Re: Bug#725887: Dropping NAS support
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:50:28AM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> tag 725887 moreinfo
> thanks
>
> On Wednesday 09 October 2013 18:54:24 Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > Package: qt4-x11
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > I suggest to remove NAS support from libqtgui4 or move it to a separate
> > module which can be installed selectively. NAS is a vintage sound
> > server and unlikely to be present on modern desktop system (since it
> > would also fight with pulseaudio over sound device control).
> >
> > Passing -no-nas-sound to configure and dropping the build-dep on
> > libaudio-dev resolves this.
> >
> > QT seems to be the main "culprit" for the relatively large installed base
> > of libaudio2 compared to the NAS sound server itself:
> > http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=nas
>
> Hi Moritz!
>
> The popcon is indeed low. But I also noted that libaudio2 it's a very small
> package (~175 kB uncompressed in amd64) and having the lib itself installed
> it's not a big problem as far as I understand (or does it triggers something
> else I'm not aware?)
nas recently had a DSA security update and when I tested the packages I wondered
about the high popcon of libaudio2 in comparison to the actual nas server.
How is the sound output configured in QT? Is it a system-wide setting (i.e. a
a system with libaudio2 installed is only exploitable if QT is configured to
use NAS)?
Cheers,
Moritz
> Yesterday I checked the possibility of adding it as a separate module but it
> seems there is no way to do that.
>
> So, at least there is the intention of removing nas from Debian [0] I don't
> think I'll remove the support.
>
> [0] For which I would wait for proper bugs+usertagging
>
> Kinds regards, Lisandro.
>
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>
> Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
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