[pulseaudio-discuss] [RFC] Remove or disabled libpulsebrowse?

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and David Henningsson at 23/06/11 11:45 did gyre and gimble:
> On 2011-06-23 10:47, Colin Guthrie wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> As Maarten pointed out should we take this opportunity to deprecate
>> libpulsebrowse? Either by ripping it out or disabling by default?
>>
>> AFAIK, only padevchooser uses this. Are there others?
>>
>> WDYT?
> 
> I'm not at all familiar with libpulsebrowse and whether this
> functionality is now provided elsewhere, but:
> 
> $ apt-cache rdepends libpulse-browse0
> Reverse Depends:
>   pulseaudio-utils
>   libpulse-dev
>   libpulse-browse0-dbg
>   padevchooser
>   pulseaudio-utils
>   libpulse-dev
>   libpulse-browse0-dbg
> 
> At least nothing in the Ubuntu archive (outside the PulseAudio project)
> depends on this package.
> 

Yeah, padevchooser is the one people will likely miss most but we keep
saying it's unsupported and dead, so this is an opportunity to do that
properly :D

Col

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