RM: libasound2-plugins-extra: Ubuntu-specific, unmaintained, FTBFS

[Steve Langasek]

The alsa-plugins-extra package is failing to build from source in Ubuntu because the source is not compatible with ffmpeg 5.0, and it build-depends on a libavresample-dev that no longer exists.

The history of this package is muddled; the changelog claims:

alsa-plugins-extra (1.1.0-1ubuntu2) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * No-change rebuild for ffmpeg soname changes.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Thu, 19 Jul 2018 08:46:00 +0000

alsa-plugins-extra (1.1.0-1ubuntu1) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * Merge with Debian; remaining changes:
    - Drop libavcodec-dev, libavresample-dev and libavutil-dev build-deps.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Wed, 04 May 2016 18:27:16 +0200

However there has never been an alsa-plugins-extra package in Debian; the changelog entries before this one refer to alsa-plugins not alsa-plugins-extra. The changelog entry regarding the delta is also definitely incorrect, it is precisely the libavresample-dev build-dependency here that causes the build problem; and providing a separate source package for the libav-dependent plugins appears to be the entire reason this package was created (LP: #1243235).

Build-dependencies in universe are no longer a reason for creating a separate source package so this source package should be dropped.

There also have been no sourceful changes to the package since 2016 (see above) and no uploads at all since 2018, so this package is unmaintained.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Removing packages from kinetic:
 alsa-plugins-extra 1.1.0-1ubuntu2 in kinetic
  libasound2-plugins-extra 1.1.0-1ubuntu2 in kinetic amd64
  libasound2-plugins-extra 1.1.0-1ubuntu2 in kinetic arm64
  libasound2-plugins-extra 1.1.0-1ubuntu2 in kinetic armhf
  libasound2-plugins-extra 1.1.0-1ubuntu2 in kinetic ppc64el
  libasound2-plugins-extra 1.1.0-1ubuntu2 in kinetic riscv64
  libasound2-plugins-extra 1.1.0-1ubuntu2 in kinetic s390x
Comment: Ubuntu-specific, unmaintained, FTBFS, source package rationale (universe build-deps) no longer applies; LP: #1982356
1 package successfully removed.
Removing packages from kinetic-proposed:
 alsa-plugins-extra 1.1.0-1ubuntu3 in kinetic
Comment: Ubuntu-specific, unmaintained, FTBFS, source package rationale (universe build-deps) no longer applies; LP: #1982356
1 package successfully removed.