please sync audacious-crossfade from debian/ubuntu hardy

[Jan Rathmann]

Binary package hint: audacious-crossfade

I hope I'm doing this report the proper way, if not please let me know.

For an unknown reason, the package audacious-crossfade (also known as xmms-crossfade) is missing in Intrepid (and therefore also in Jaunty); as packages.ubuntu.com shows, it was avaiable in the previous Ubuntu versions (Hardy, Gutsy, ...). I would love to see it getting re-imported, as far as I have seen the version in Hardy is still the current one and I did a manual build of it on my Intrepid installation which works just fine (no changes made).

Kind regards,
Jan

[Fabrice Coutadeur (fabricesp)]

Hi,

According to log of removal:
(From Debian) RoM: impossible to use reliably with audacious 1.5

And debian doesn't have either this package anymore: it has also been removed. So first step would be to make it readmitted in Debian.

[Jan Rathmann (kaiserclaudius)]

Hi,

fabrice_sp schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> According to log of removal:
> (From Debian) RoM: impossible to use reliably with audacious 1.5
>
> And debian doesn't have either this package anymore: it has also been
> removed. So first step would be to make it readmitted in Debian.
>
> ** Changed in: xmms-crossfade (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

Thanks, I didn't know that. So if I got it right, this means that the
audacious-crossfade plugin does not work everywhere with every audacious
configuration. But I have to admit that I don't understand completely
why a package gets removed completely if such a case occurs. For
example, on my system the crossfade plugin did always work fine (as
mentioned before, even the manually build version for intrepid), so
there are obviously people with systems, where the package _does_ work.
So if the package would have been retained, there would maybe be some
people where it doesn't work, but also some some where it works. But if
there is no package anymore, it works for no one ;-) So according to
this logic, a package that doesn't work everywhere is still better than
a package that isn't existend.

Kind regards,
Jan