Re: EPEL libmodplug retirement in
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 6:49 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 14 August 2014 09:46, Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta(a)iki.fi>
wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Karel Volný <kvolny(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> > last week, libmodplug got retired from EPEL (both 5 and 6), see
> > https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5960
> >
> > But our users seem to miss it, it broke dependencies of qmmp and
> > xine-lib.
> >
> > I know you've orphaned the EPEL branches a few years ago, however, I'd
> > like
> > to ask you to reconsider the decision. RHEL based desktop is still not
> > dead
>
> I may reconsider that when/if I sometime start to use an EL based
> system that has some kind of use for or sensible means for audio
> output. But that time is not now, so I'm afraid it's a "no thanks"
> from me at the moment, someone else should look into it.
What would be a sensible means of audio output?
Audio hardware, speakers, something like that. Anyway none of the EL
boxes I use have anything that I could even effortlessly test
libmodplug with. And even if I could, I wouldn't sign up for
maintaining something I don't actually use, that kind of "maintenance"
is not what I want from EL distros/packages. This is exactly why I
stopped maintaining EL libmodplug years ago, and nothing has really
changed since. The package needs a maintainer who actually eats his
own dog food at least to some extent.