Re: I would like to give my congradulation

[Chris Bannister <mockingbird@earthlight.co.nz>]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:52:34PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 09:02:18AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > Andrei Popescu wrote:
> >> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 11:00:50PM +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
> >>> Chris Bannister wrote:
> >>>> I think xmms is no more anyway.
> >>> A number of distros have dropped xmms.
> >>> As far as I vaguely remember, the reason is that it still uses gtk1, and
> >>> there were certain problems preventing it from being upgraded to gtk2.
> >>>
> >>> Audacious is one of its successors, you could use that one instead.
> >>>
> >>> However, Debian is one of the distros still carrying xmms.
> >>
> >> With 'still' beeing the key word here. It is only available in stable and 
> >> was already removed from testing.
> >>
> >
> > I see it under unstable also:
> >
> > Package: xmms (1:1.2.10+20070601-1 and others) [debports]
> >
> > What's 'debports'?
> 
> That's what I was going to ask *you*! Here is my apt-cache policy:
> 
> ,----[ apt-cache policy xmms ]
> | xmms:
> |   Installed: (none)
> |   Candidate: 1:1.2.10+20061101-1etch1
> |   Version table:
> |      1:1.2.10+20061101-1etch1 0
> |         500 http://ftp.at.debian.org etch/main Packages
> `----
> 
> How is yours?

:-)

Look at http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html

Search for xmms -- there are a few pointers to bug reports.

Also see what: 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=pkg&data=xmms&sev-inc=critical&sev-inc=grave&sev-inc=serious

has to say.

Also there is a link which answers the question, "why is this package
not in testing yet" which  unfortunately I don't have off the cuff[1], 
but if you are running testing then you should at least know about them.

[1] Hopefully google will bring up the answer.

-- 
Chris.
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