Bug#716776: audacious-plugins: SID support gone in 3.4 upload in Debian

[Daniel Andersson]

Package: audacious-plugins
Version: 3.4-1
Severity: normal

SID files used to be playable in Audacious, but will no longer play as of 3.4.

In the upstream release notes [1] it says:

> The SID plugin now requires libsidplayfp. The older sidplay1 and sidplay2
libraries are no longer supported.

libsidplayfp is packaged in Debian, but it is not installed via Audacious.
Installing it manually does not enable SID functionality either from what I can
see (I guess it must be found at compilation time to be enabled).

If it is meant to be stripped from the core package, perhaps a separate package
that adds support for this could be considered. I can't see the harm in
enabling support by default if libsidplayfp is present at the local system, but
at the same time I guess SID files are not really a common use case, which
might point to a separate plugin package (but then there are probably many more
format plugins that should be handled in the same way).

[1]: <http://audacious-media-player.org/news/21-new-release-audacious-3-4>



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.8-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages audacious-plugins depends on:
ii  audacious-plugins-data    3.4-1
ii  libasound2                1.0.27.2-1
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.8.0-2
ii  libaudcore1               3.4-1
ii  libbinio1ldbl             1.4+dfsg1-1
ii  libbs2b0                  3.1.0+dfsg-2
ii  libc6                     2.17-7
ii  libcairo-gobject2         1.12.14-5
ii  libcairo2                 1.12.14-5
ii  libcddb2                  1.3.2-3
ii  libcdio-cdda1             0.83-4
ii  libcdio13                 0.83-4
ii  libcue1                   1.4.0-1
ii  libcurl3-gnutls           7.31.0-2
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.6.12-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.100.2-1
ii  libfaad2                  2.7-8
ii  libflac8                  1.3.0-1
ii  libfluidsynth1            1.1.6-2
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.8.1-6
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.28.2-1
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]  9.1.4-1
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.36.3-3
ii  libgtk-3-0                3.8.2-3
ii  libjack0 [libjack-0.116]  1:0.121.3+20120418git75e3e20b-2.1
ii  liblircclient0            0.9.0~pre1-1
ii  libmms0                   0.6.2-3
ii  libmodplug1               1:0.8.8.4-3
ii  libmp3lame0               1:3.99.5-dmo2
ii  libmpg123-0               1.15.3-1
ii  libneon27-gnutls          0.29.6-3
ii  libnotify4                0.7.5-2
ii  libogg0                   1.3.1-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0            1.32.5-5+b1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0       1.32.5-5+b1
ii  libpulse0                 4.0-3
ii  libsamplerate0            0.1.8-5
ii  libsdl1.2debian           1.2.15-5
ii  libsndfile1               1.0.25-6
ii  libstdc++6                4.8.1-6
ii  libvorbis0a               1.3.2-1.3
ii  libvorbisenc2             1.3.2-1.3
ii  libvorbisfile3            1.3.2-1.3
ii  libwavpack1               4.60.1-3
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.6.0-1
ii  libxcomposite1            1:0.4.4-1
ii  libxml2                   2.9.1+dfsg1-2
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.8-1
ii  multiarch-support         2.17-7
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.8.dfsg-1

Versions of packages audacious-plugins recommends:
ii  audacious  3.4-1

audacious-plugins suggests no packages.

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