Bug#831551: soundmanager2: mtasc removal

[Niels Thykier]

On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 23:37:15 +0100 Balint Reczey
<balint at balintreczey.hu> wrote:
> Control: tags -1 confirmed
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 17:48:44 +0800 Paul Wise <pabs at debian.org> wrote:
> > Source: soundmanager2
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > I would like to remove mtasc from the Debian archive. It has been
> > unmaintained in Debian and upstream for years. The web ecosystem is
> > moving away from Flash towards standard web technologies, which can
> > now replace most use of Flash. Debian should encourage our upstreams
> > to move towards standard web technologies like HTML5 and JavaScript.
> > Please talk to your upstreams about transitioning away from
> > ActionScript 2 towards HTML5 JavaScript. If they need to still
> > support Flash for some users, then they should switch to something
> > like Haxe. 
> 
> OK, I plan dropping the SWF files from soundmanager2 in the Buster
> cycle.
> 
> Cheers,
> Balint
> 
> 
> 

Hi Balint,

Are there any updates on removing the SWF files and the mtasc dependencies?

Thanks,
~Niels