Hi, On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 02:59:24AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Thanks for your work, but isn't it time we quietly got rid of this > library? Video memory and mode setting should be managed by the kernel, > not by applications. It's bad enough that we had the X server doing > this for years (and still do on some hardware). I've looked into this; svgalib's reverse dependencies are: * bochs (bochs-svga) * gnuboy (gnuboy-svga) * lcdproc (no svgalib-specific package) * links2 (no svgalib-specific package) * mplayer (no svgalib-specific package) * qcam (no svgalib-specific package) * spectemu (spectemu-svga) * synaesthesia (no svgalib-specific package) * thrust (no svgalib-specific package) * tmview (dvisvga) * zgv (no svgalib-specific package) Apart from mplayer and zgv, all of these rebuild fine without libsvga1-dev; they can use X and some can use fb (I can provide patches of course and NMU where necessary). mplayer FTBFS anyway because of changes in liblivemedia (#708140). zgv only builds a svgalib-based binary; it can in theory be built with SDL instead but that fails. All the svgalib-specific packages have low popcon scores. Regards, Stephen
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