On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 02:39:05PM -0700, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 1:17 AM, Rik Mills <rikmi...@kubuntu.org> wrote: > > See bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1698063
> > "libechonest has been removed from Debian unstable, with the rationale > > that it uses an external API that no longer exists (Debian bug #862551). > > tomahawk-player depends on libechonest, which prevents libechonest's > > removal. Either the Kubuntu team needs to take responsibility for > > libechonest and fix it so that it's usable, or tomahawk-player needs to > > be fixed not to depend on it, or tomahawk-player needs to be removed > > from the archive." > > The player seems pretty dead upstream, and even has the commit in github: > > https://github.com/tomahawk-player/tomahawk/commit/c8389592488c07079f40e7edb9195cfabbc58740 > > that to all effects it "is abandoned". > > I've never had anything to do with this project, so I am asking for > > opinions on continued 'fixing' > > Ref kubuntu policy on unmaintained/dead upstream projects: > > https://community.kde.org/Kubuntu/Policies#Unmaintained_Software_Bugs > It was a great project for awhile, full of enthusiastic devels. Now it > is dead, so I vote for saying goodbye, and removing it from the > archive. If it returns from the dead, we can always bring it back as a > new project. Thanks. If this is the position of the Kubuntu team, can you please comment to such on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1698063 and retitle it as a request for tomahawk-player's removal? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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