Bug#725887: Dropping NAS support

[Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 04:01:45PM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> On Saturday 19 October 2013 13:48:08 Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> [snip]
> > > 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)?
> 
> Qt can only use NAS if and only if it's built with NAS support. Saddly this 
> doesn't generates an extra "plugin" or such, but integrates in libQtGui 
> itself.
> 
> So either we keep it or fully remove it.

I don't have a strong opinion on this issue, if you feel NAS is still useful 
for some users, please simply close the bug.

Cheers,
        Moritz