Bug#765766: Dirac package unloved and appears to be nearly obsolete, maybe consider removal after jessie.

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting peter green (2014-10-17 23:25:24)
> The dirac package seems pretty unloved. It's only ever had one 
> upstream version in debian and all of the recent uploads have been 
> "team uploads", mostly tweaking the packaging with a handful of FTBFS 
> fixes.
> 
> The package fails to build on armhf with gcc-4.9 with a testsuite 
> segfault and has been that way for months (see bug 756777). It doesn't 
> appear there is anyone with the time/inclination to properly debug 
> this and work out whether it's a true bug in the compiler or some 
> reliance on undefined behaviour in the dirac code.
> 
> Furthermore the package seems to have mostly been replaced by 
> Schrödinger . The decoder seems to have no remaining reverse 
> dependencies and the encoder seems to have only one reverse dependency 
> remaining. Unfortunately that one remaining dependency is a fairly 
> imporant package, namely gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad .

Thanks to above info, I have now filed bug#765776 against 
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad.


 - Jonas

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