Bug#733783: RM: ecasound [sparc] -- RC-buggy; build-depends on liblo-dev (Was: Re: Removal of liblo)

[Felipe Sateler]

On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Alessandro Ghedini <ghedo at debian.org> wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 ecasound 2.9.0-1
> Control: retitle -1 ecasound: remove Build-Depends on liblo-dev on sparc
> Control: severity -1 serious
>
> On mar, dic 31, 2013 at 05:01:59 -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Joerg Jaspert <joerg at ganneff.de> wrote:
>> > On 13437 March 1977, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>> >
>> >>> I did this now, but as you wrote, you want to get the other maintainers
>> >>> to do similar for their packages (or do it yourself). For completness
>> >>> sake, this is what dak thinks:
>> >> I don't understand. Do you want the other maintainers to ACK the
>> >> removal? Or do you want a bug for each package? As far as I understand
>> >> it, the current packages (in sparc) are useless so they have to be
>> >> removed.
>> >
>> > Yeah, and someone has to file bugs for those packages.
>>
>> OK, cloning this bug into all the packages that need removal
>
> I think the point was to file RC bugs against the packages that currently
> Build-Depends on liblo-dev on sparc asking their maintainers to remove that
> dependency. Fixing the source of the problem is IMO much better than just
> removing packages indiscriminately (moreover no one bothered contacting those
> maintainers telling them what is going on). But then again, that's my opinion,
> I don't want to put words in Joerg's mouth that he didn't say.

I'm sorry. I thought I had contacted everyone. I checked and I missed
contacting the multimedia team :(. Which incidentally maintains the
largest number of reverse-deps. That probably explains why nobody
replied. Will fix that now.



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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler