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Bug#917292: ffmpeg: linking with libcrystalhd3 seem of no use at all



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.


 - Jonas

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