Hello, Helmut Grohne, le dim. 09 mars 2025 21:40:11 +0100, a ecrit: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 11:30:29AM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > > The attached (which also includes Andy Whitcroft's patch for #829255) > > seems to load modules as desired, and preserves the spirit of being an > > rcS (early-boot) service. No debian/rules changes are necessary for > > dh_systemd, since cdbs uses it automatically if present. > > I reached out to Simon about the missing attachment via IRC and he > confirmed that he has lost access to it. Admittedly, I wouldn't be able > to recover eight year old patches either and maybe someone should have > noticed sooner. > > We also considered whether oss4 would be worth keeping in unstable and > the two of us agreed that it would be better removed. Linux has a very > capable sound driver architecture that does not rely on out-of-tree > modules and anyone interested in the package could have taken care of > the issue in the past nine years. > > Any objections to filing a RoQA for oss4?
Yes. The package was originally meant not to provide drivers, but a libasound compatibility layer for non-linux ports. The drivers came afterwards but didn't really receive maintenance. We can drop just that part. > If the package still is useful for hurd-any, it should likely drop the > oss4-dkms binary package and turn the Arch:any packages into > Arch:hurd-any, but it should likely not be used to satisfy dependencies > on libasound2 on Linux. That is already the case: liboss4-salsa-dev is not built on linux-any. Samuel
