Your message dated Tue, 14 Jul 2015 01:11:15 +0000
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and subject line Bug#765766: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #765766,
regarding RM: dirac -- ROM; obsolete, replacement exists (libschroedinger)
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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Furthermore the package seems to have mostly been replaced by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.
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We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:
dirac | 1.0.2-7.1 | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, hurd-i386, i386,
kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x, sparc
libdirac-decoder0 | 1.0.2-7.1 | amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, hurd-i386, i386,
kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x, sparc
libdirac-dev | 1.0.2-7.1 | amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, hurd-i386, i386,
kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x, sparc
libdirac-doc | 1.0.2-7.1 | all
libdirac-encoder0 | 1.0.2-7.1 | amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, hurd-i386, i386,
kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x, sparc
------------------- Reason -------------------
ROM; obsolete, replacement exists (libschroedinger)
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Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag
database and may (or may not) still be in the pool; this is not a bug.
The package(s) will be physically removed automatically when no suite
references them (and in the case of source, when no binary references
it). Please also remember that the changes have been done on the
master archive and will not propagate to any mirrors until the next
dinstall run at the earliest.
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