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

[Patrick Matthäi]

Am 20.06.2015 um 18:45 schrieb 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 :)


I am not confused.

>> 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.

There is no depenedencie of *roar* to dnet at all.

> 
> 
> 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.

Sorry Ron, but you are realy the last person who is responsible to
discuss about topic at all. Same topic as with mumble/celt...


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