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mas package

REMOVAL REQUEST: mas-*

Bug #295007 reported by Bryan Quigley
6
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
mas (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

Remove from jaunty
Remove binaries and source

The packages included are (and rdepends):
mas-server (none)
mas-utils (none)
libmas-dev (none)
libmas0c2 (mas-server, mas-utils, libmas-dev)

Rationale:
These packages have stagnated for many years now:
Debian doesn't have them in any development or testing branches:
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=mas-server&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all

Source Website:
http://www.mediaapplicationserver.net/indwexframes.html, not updated in many many years

Popcon:
#rank name inst vote old recent no-files (maintainer)
25881 mas-server 138 3 128 7 0 (David Schleef)

Also I believe the (finished) functionality has been completely replaced by pulseaudio.

So in summary, it is unmaintained, no longer going to be looked at in Debian, and has been superseded. I'm going to wait a few days before subscribing the archive team, for any objections.

Revision history for this message
Michael Bienia (geser) wrote :

Remove request ACKed.

mas has no rdepends (outside mas) and no rbuilddepends.
It FTBFS on i386 and amd64 since gutsy (the last upload).

The matching Debian removal bug is: #453874
Debian rationale: RM: mas -- RoQA; FTBFS; unmaintained; few users

Changed in mas:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

2008-11-14 11:54:27 INFO Removing candidates:
2008-11-14 11:54:27 INFO mas 0.6.2-2.3ubuntu2 in jaunty
2008-11-14 11:54:27 INFO libmas-dev 0.6.2-2.3ubuntu2 in jaunty hppa
2008-11-14 11:54:27 INFO libmas-dev 0.6.2-2.3ubuntu2 in jaunty powerpc
2008-11-14 11:54:27 INFO libmas-dev 0.6.2-2.3ubuntu2 in jaunty sparc
2008-11-14 11:54:27 INFO libmas0c2 0.6.2-2.3ubuntu2 in jaunty hppa
2008-11-14 11:54:27 INFO libmas0c2 0.6.2-2.3ubuntu2 in jaunty powerpc
2008-11-14 11:54:27 INFO libmas0c2 0.6.2-2.3ubuntu2 in jaunty sparc
2008-11-14 11:54:27 INFO mas-server 0.6.2-2.3ubuntu2 in jaunty hppa
2008-11-14 11:54:27 INFO mas-server 0.6.2-2.3ubuntu2 in jaunty powerpc
2008-11-14 11:54:27 INFO mas-server 0.6.2-2.3ubuntu2 in jaunty sparc
2008-11-14 11:54:27 INFO mas-utils 0.6.2-2.3ubuntu2 in jaunty hppa
2008-11-14 11:54:27 INFO mas-utils 0.6.2-2.3ubuntu2 in jaunty powerpc
2008-11-14 11:54:27 INFO mas-utils 0.6.2-2.3ubuntu2 in jaunty sparc
2008-11-14 11:54:27 INFO Removed-by: Martin Pitt
2008-11-14 11:54:27 INFO Comment: superseded by pulseaudio, orphaned upstream, LP #295007
2008-11-14 11:54:27 INFO 13 packages successfully removed.

Changed in mas:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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