[Pkg-owncloud-maintainers] Bug#831551: soundmanager2: mtasc removal

[Balint Reczey]

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