Bug#789256: cmus: Pulls in unwanted and potentially dangerous DECnet packages through libroar2

[Ron]

On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 01:02:50PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 06/20/2015 12:52 PM, Patrick Matthäi wrote:
> > I need roaraudio for myself? He is my buddy? I don't know him at
> > all :o John: please stop writing e-mails like this..
> 
> It's Adrian, not John, and I am just quoting Ron who certainly isn't
> making this stuff up. It has apparently always Stephan who came forward
> and ask for ROAR audio reactivation.

You're confusing Patrick and Philipp :)

Not that it makes a whole lot of difference here, we've had exactly
the same sort of rambling dismissal of this as a problem from both
of them, every time somebody tried to resolve this (and I was far
from the first to have been pulled into trying or needing to do that).


James, Re:

> But I couldn't find any evidence the _current_ maintainer of
> roaraudio has refused to remove DECnet support. The current bug
> about it has no replies.

None of the people responsible for roar has changed in all the years
that people have been having trouble with this and trying to resolve
it, so if there's no new responses it seems fairly safe to assume
that their previous refusals still stand.

I can't say what's right or best for cmus, but what is right for
Debian seems fairly self evident to everyone but the roar maintainers.


Personally I don't really see that this needs to go to the TC, it's
purely a maintainer decision for the cmus people whether they want to
support this as a dependency or not.  And whether or not that's a sane
thing to do basically rests on whether the roar people actually engage
with resolving the ongoing concerns, or continue to insist that DECnet
being dead and obsolete is some kind of insidious conspiracy theory.

  Cheers,
  Ron