Sound packafe issues in "testing"

[stan <stanb@panix.com>]

I was wondering if anyone could give me any information as to what the plan for sound related
packages is in "testing"?

This has been going on for over a month now:


Script started on Sun Jun 29 11:28:10 2003
teddy:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... 0%Reading Package Lists... 0%Reading Package Lists... 1%Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... 0%Building Dependency Tree... 0%Building Dependency Tree... 0%Building Dependency Tree... 50%Building Dependency Tree... 50%Building Dependency Tree... 74%Building Dependency Tree... 94%Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back
  aspell aspell-en audacity black-box bluefish castle-combat circuslinux clanbomber criticalmass
  devhelp ecasound ecawave freeciv freeciv-gtk gnome-games gnome-panel gnome-panel-data
  gnome-session gnome-utils gravitywars icebreaker j2sdk1.3 libopenal0 libsdl-mixer1.2
  libsdl1.2debian libsdl1.2debian-all libvorbis-dev libvorbisenc2 libvorbisfile3 mc mirrormagic
  ooqstart-gnome penguin-command rockdodger sox timidity tipptrainer toppler tuxpuck vegastrike
  vls vls-dvb vls-dvd vorbis-tools xmms-qbble xmmsarts xpenguins-applet xshipwars xxdiff 
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 49  not upgraded.
teddy:~# apt-get dist-y upgrade
Reading Package Lists... 0%Reading Package Lists... 100%Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... 0%Building Dependency Tree... 0%Building Dependency Tree... 50%Building Dependency Tree... 50%Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  avifile-vorbis-plugin devhelp devhelp-book-autotools devhelp-book-binutils devhelp-book-cvs
  devhelp-book-emacs devhelp-book-gdb devhelp-book-ggad devhelp-book-glibc devhelp-book-gnome
  devhelp-book-gtk devhelp-book-gtk2 devhelp-book-make devhelp-book-pygtk2 devhelp-book-python
  devhelp-book-sdl devhelp-books ecawave freeamp freeamp-extras kdebase-audiolibs libarts-mpeglib
  libecasound7 libkvutils2 libvorbis0 mp3blaster mpeglib mq3 oggtst wxwin2.2-i18n 
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  freeciv-client-gtk freeciv-data freeciv-server libclan2-mikmod libclan2-sound libclanlib2
  libdvbpsi1 libdvdread3 libecasound7c102 libgnome-desktop-2 libjsw2 libkvutils2c102
  libpanel-applet2-0 libsamplerate0 libstartup-notification0 libvorbis0a libwnck-common libwnck4
  libwxgtk2.4 wxwin2.4-i18n 
The following packages have been kept back
  aspell aspell-en bluefish gnome-games gnome-panel gnome-panel-data gnome-session gravitywars
  j2sdk1.3 libsdl1.2debian libsdl1.2debian-all mc toppler xmms-qbble xmmsarts xshipwars xxdiff 
30 packages upgraded, 20 newly installed, 30 to remove and 17  not upgraded.
Need to get 22.7MB of archives. After unpacking 43.3MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
teddy:~# 
Script done on Sun Jun 29 11:28:49 2003



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