RemoveArts

We are proposing to remove all arts associated packages from the archive prior to the release of Kubuntu 9.04. aRts is no longer maintained upstream, there are no applications in KDE4 that use the arts sound system and we no longer provide a KDE3 desktop.

Consequently a number of packages that depend on arts will need to be rebuilt.

Guidelines

In most cases this will involve:

download the source package
Run dch -i to create a new changelog entry and record your changes
edit debian/control to remove libarts-dev. Search for any other occurrences of arts and edit accordingly. It is also worth checking the .install files for anything obviously arts related and save yourself a rebuild
testbuild package in a chroot/pbuilder
Make any further fixes to get the package to build.
Note your changes in debian/changelog
create a debdiff. 'debdiff old_version.dsc new_version.dsc >new.debdiff'

If you do fix a package please mark LP: #320915 in debian/changelog so it can be linked to the bug report

Packages

Below is a list of packages that depend on some component of arts. If you intend to work on a package please enter your name in the assignee column.

Depends on libarts1c2a - aRts sound system core components

Package	Assignee	Solution	Done?
qterm	a\|wen	no issue in jaunty	OK
nateon	a\|wen	to be removed by jr, notify upstream	OK
kvirc	a\|wen	debdiff attached to bug 320915	OK
knights	a\|wen	to be removed by jr	OK
kdelibs4c2a	apachelogger	built without arts	OK

Depends on libarts1-dev - development files for the aRts sound system core components

Package	Assignee	Solution	Done?
kdelibs4-dev	apachelogger	built without arts	OK

Depends on libartsc0 - aRts sound system C support library

Package	Assignee	Solution	Done?
libk3b2	a\|wen	not in jaunty	OK
cmus	a\|wen	debdiff attached to bug 320915	OK
kadu	a\|wen	sync in progress in bug 306361; rebuild w/o arts	OK
vlc-plugin-arts	a\|wen	debdiff done; needs binary package removal	OK
mythvideo	tgm4883	Should be fixed after next upload to repos and a rebuild	Done
mythtv-transcode-utils	tgm4883	Fixed in our bzr, will be fixed on next upload to repos	Done
mythtv-frontend	tgm4883	Fixed in our bzr, will be fixed on next upload to repos	Done
mythtv-backend	tgm4883	Fixed in our bzr, will be fixed on next upload to repos	Done
mythbrowser	tgm4883	Not in jaunty	Done
mplayer-nogui	a\|wen	same source as mplayer	OK
mplayer	a\|wen	branched as lp:~andreas-wenning/mplayer/ubuntu	OK
libmyth-0.21-0		from mythtv source	Done
zapping	a\|wen	debdiff attached to bug 320915	OK
xsidplay	a\|wen	debdiff attached to bug 320915	OK
xmp	a\|wen	debdiff attached to bug 320915	OK
timidity	a\|wen	debdiff attached to bug 320915	OK
mpg123	a\|wen	debdiff attached to bug 320915	OK
mhwaveedit	a\|wen	debdiff attached to bug 320915	OK
libsdl1.2debian-arts	Arby	debdiff done; needs binary package removal	OK
liballegro4.2-plugin-arts	a\|wen	debdiff done; needs binary package removal	OK
cynthiune.app	a\|wen	debdiff attached to bug 320915	OK
audacious-plugins-extra	a\|wen	debdiff attached to bug 320915	OK
libsdl1.2debian-all	Arby	same source package as libsdl1.2debian-arts	OK
libk3b3		build w/o arts support	OK
libao2	a\|wen	debdiff attached to bug 320915	OK

Depends on libartsc0-dev - development files for the aRts sound system C support library

Package	Assignee	Solution	Done?
libmediastreamer0-dev	a\|wen	debdiff attached to bug 320915	OK
audacious-plugins-dev	a\|wen	same source as audacious-plugins-extra	OK
libsdl1.2-dev	Arby	same source package as libsdl1.2debian-arts	OK

Depends on arts - sound system from the official KDE release

Package	Assignee	Solution	Done?
ichthux-desktop	txwinger	drop arts from ichthux-meta	OK

Needs libartskde

Package	Assignee	Solution	Done?
basket	a\|wen	debdiff attached to bug 320915	OK

Indirect build-dep on arts from kdelibs

koffice	ScottK	Fixed build --without-arts by fixing CDBS	OK
kile	a\|wen	updated to kde4 version svn snapshot	OK

KDE build system

CDBS

ScottK

add --without-arts to standard configure flags

Done

Fixes:

checking for mcopidl... not found
configure: error: The important program mcopidl was not found!
Please check whether you installed aRts correctly or use
--without-arts to compile without aRts support (this will remove functionality).

RemoveArts (last edited 2009-02-24 14:18:04 by 61)