Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Hi,
The IETF codec working group has now completed its Last Call on Opus, which means that celt is a completed experiment and upstream will no longer be maintaining it at all outside of Opus. All the things previously depending on celt have either been updated or have dropped their dependency on the library package now. The only thing remaining that dak rm reports is: # Broken Depends: gst-plugins-bad0.10: gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad [hurd-i386] Which is blocked by failing to build on hurd due to #676130, which has a patch in the BTS. If needed I can NMU zvbi to clear that up as well. Since the 0.7.1 release of celt that we have been carrying is not interoperable with any other version of it, and since other distros are all carrying other versions of it, upstream would very much like us to stop distributing this as a system lib for the Wheezy release. A few things still need to make it to testing before we can remove it there also, but modulo hurd, we should be clear to remove it from unstable now. The only thing which has any excuse at all to still be using celt 0.7.1 is mumble, which declared it as the baseline interop codec for its private protocol prior to the release of squeeze. The original intent was to move this to a private library of mumble when the time came to remove it from experimental use in other software, but since there is currently some concern that there may be remotely triggerable bugs in the 0.7.1 release, this has become an open question all of its own ... The resolution to that is independent of this removal request, I'll keep people who need to know in the loop as we learn more - but I mention it here because there are rumours that roaraudio (those nice folk who brought you a DECnet dependency to d-i) may try to resurrect this package, or embed it themselves, so just in case that is actually true, I'm red-flagging it here as an Unwise Move to make. If you need me to push zvbi before we can move on this, just let me know. Thanks! Ron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org