Bug#831551: soundmanager2: mtasc removal

[James Cowgill]

Control: tags -1 patch

On 26/05/18 09:55, Niels Thykier wrote:
> 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.
>>
> 
> Hi Balint,
> 
> Are there any updates on removing the SWF files and the mtasc dependencies?

I think this works:
https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/soundmanager2/merge_requests/1

James

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