[ sent again - circumventing 8bit rejection at Debian mail system ] Quoting Moritz Mühlenhoff (2019-08-08 17:17:00) > On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 03:27:34PM -0300, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Quoting James Cowgill (2019-07-27 12:48:23) > > > On 27/07/2019 15:52, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > > Quoting James Cowgill (2019-07-27 11:12:00) > > > >>> 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? Done: https://bugs.debian.org/934242 Thanks, Moritz, - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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