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

[Luke Yelavich]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 09:21:39PM EST, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> '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

It has been removed from Oneiric, as its no longer maintained either in Debian or upstrea.

Problem solved.

Luke