development: alsaplayer needs rebuild

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Am Donnerstag, den 21.04.2005, 09:51 +0200 schrieb Matthias Saou:
> Marius Andreiana wrote :
> 
> > I wanted to fill this in bugzilla, but there's no alsaplayer package at
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora%
> > 20Extras&
> 
> That's because it went "bye bye" :-/
> It requires to be built with libmad to be able to play mp3's, so the
> easiest was to just drop it and let it be provided from elsewhere. If you
> really want to try to have it back in Extras, take a look at how hard it
> would be to just disable the mp3 support in the main package (no need to
> even patch code out it seems) and provide the libmad decoding part from
> elsewhere (I don't remember if alsaplayer is modular, though).

Matthias, why was it not removed from the rpm repositories? It's still
there and the old package even found it's way into devel -- maybe we
should place a remove request on 

http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras_2fFC3Status

and of course one on

http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras_2fFC4Status

CU
thl