Re: the way forward for kde3, xine, and arts

[Mark Davies <mark%ecs.vuw.ac.nz@localhost>]

On Wed, 04 Apr 2012, David Holland wrote:
> Let's try this again, since the last attempt didn't have the right
> Subject: and so probably nobody noticed.
> 
> kde3 broke recently because the new xine-lib removed the xine-arts
> plugin, which is required by several kde3 packages.
> 
> Does anyone know what the recommended approach to dealing with this
> is? We can probably for now restore the xine-arts plugin (although
> it'll take work) but that's not a good long-term plan if there's
> another alternative.

I just built kdemultimedia3 against an old xine-lib and xine-arts and 
then rebuilt having removed the xine-arts dependency and got no 
noticable difference in the package.   I can't remember why I 
originally added the xine-arts dependency but looks like its no longer 
needed.  That will get kdemultimedia3 building which in turn should 
allow the kde3 meta-pkg to build.  Then its just a few stray kde3 
packages (kmplayer-kde3 any others?) that need to be looked at.

cheers
mark