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

[Sebastian Ramacher]

Control: found -1 1.0.2-7.1
Control: tags + sid stretch
Control: severity -1 serious

On 2014-10-17 22:25:24, peter green wrote:
> Package: dirac
> 
> 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 Furthermore the package seems to have mostly been replaced by Schrödinger .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 .
> 
> Upstream also seems to be trying to push people towards Schrödinger. Thier
> website says
> 
> "The Dirac project maintains two encoder implementations: dirac-research, a
> research encoder, and Schrödinger, which is meant for user applications.
> Schrödinger outperforms dirac-research in most encoding situations, both in
> terms of encoding speed and visual quality."
> 
> And there do not appear to have been any new releases of the plain dirac
> package since 2009.
> 
> As a band aid for jessie. I just uploaded a NMU to use 4.8 on armhf but that
> is not a long term soloution.

I am raising this to serious, so we do not release stretch with dirac.

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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