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

[Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

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