Package: xtrx-dkms Version: 0.0.1+git20190320.5ae3a3e-3 Followup-For: Bug #1012616 X-Debbugs-Cc: witold.bary...@gmail.com
I suggest escalating this to serious issue. As is causing live-build build failures, and kernel upgrade issues interfering with the rest of the system. Due to chain of Depends and Recommends, xtrx-dkms is installed, even if not requested or needed directly by user. For example installing gnss-sdr, gqrx-sdr, gr-osmosdr would cause xtrx-dkms to be attempted to be installed in many cases. I think one of the things (beyond fixing the bug in the xtrx-dkms itself), is changing Recommends to Suggests in libxtrxll0. I would even say that using Recommends does not follow the Debian policy. Other option is to remove xtrx related packages from Debian. Devices are no longer available for purchase. Website has no updates since 2017, crowsupply had last update in 2019, and github had last update 3-4 years ago with various Issues and PR opened but not touched for over a year. So it looks unmaintained. The developer and company now moved to other projects (similar to xtrx). The driver is small, and has GPL, but there was never any attempt to upstream it into mainline Linux, so it was doomed to be abandoned and rot. popcon shows 142 "votes". But this might be misleading, as there is no direct way to measure how many people actually use it. If it is installed, it will be built on kernel upgrade, so "accessed", doesn't mean it will be loaded and used. popcon graphs also show sharp drop in last month, where people probably started realising it breaks the kernel upgrade while doing standard apt upgrade. Regards, Witold -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers testing-debug APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages xtrx-dkms depends on: ii dkms 3.0.3-2 xtrx-dkms recommends no packages. xtrx-dkms suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
