On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 03:27:34PM -0300, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting James Cowgill (2019-07-27 12:48:23) > > Hi, > > > > On 27/07/2019 15:52, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > Quoting James Cowgill (2019-07-27 11:12:00) > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >>> ffmpeg currently links with libcrystalhd3. > > >>> > > >>> It seems, however, that libcrystalhd3 is only really useful > > >>> together with firmware-crystalhd, which was never really usable in > > >>> Debian, leading to that package being dropped: > > >>> https://bugs.debian.org/865978 > > >>> > > >>> If someone wants to revive CrystalHD in Debian, it seems a good > > >>> place to start is > > >>> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Broadcom_Crystal_HD#Feb._2014_Update > > >>> > > >>> I suggest to simply stop link with libcrystalhd3 until > > >>> firmware-crystalhd reappear in Debian. > > >> > > >> I've disables crystalhd. > [...] > > Should we completely remove libcrystalhd3 from the archive as well in > > that case (given what you wrote above)? > > Yes, unless anyone steps up and points outan actual working use-case of > the library, we should (have all its reverse dependencies stop link > against it and) remove it from Debian altogether.
Can you please file an RC bug against libcrystalhd3 so that we have that on record in the BTS? Cheers, Moritz