On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
I'd also like to retire "esound" finally. Currently, adplay, ayttm,
dopewars, e16, gnome-libs, gnubg, lxdream, moon-buggy, spacechart,
xarchon, xmms-esd still use it.

Most of these projects if not all are dead upstream but for now, I have disabled esd support in ayttm and adplay.  I will take a look at others when I find time. 

Rahul