On 2019-11-22 at 16:24, Long Wind wrote: > because few users need it ??
The package event log at https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/xawtv shows that it was removed from testing (which, at the time, was buster) on January 26th. The removal message, linked to from that log entry and available at https://tracker.debian.org/news/1024523/xawtv-removed-from-testing/, indicates that it was failing to build with the version of the libc6 package(s) which are included in buster. As it couldn't build against buster, it couldn't be released as part of buster. That's likely the only reason why it wasn't included. According to the bug report cited in that removal message, available at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=916114, the build failure was fixed in August - well after buster had been released. With that fix in place, xawtv is available in current testing. A backport might be possible, but I don't know what it would take to make it happen, beyond someone stepping forward to put in the necessary work. I'd expect that it's also likely that it will be included in bullseye when that gets released. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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