Hi Jonas, [Release Team member watching] On Thu, 08 Aug 2019 17:37:35 +0200 Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> wrote: > Source: crystalhd > Version: 1:0.0~git20110715.fdd2f19-1 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > It seems 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 Can you elaborate a bit? The package has a huge popcon (hence it's not autoremoved). You're saying that all those people had it installed in vain? Or is that due to a (past) library dependency and didn't it actually add anything? elbrus@coccia:~$ dak rm --no-action -R --suite testing crystalhd Will remove the following packages from testing: crystalhd | 1:0.0~git20110715.fdd2f19-13 | source gstreamer1.0-crystalhd | 1:0.0~git20110715.fdd2f19-13 | amd64, i386 libcrystalhd-dev | 1:0.0~git20110715.fdd2f19-13 | amd64, i386 libcrystalhd3 | 1:0.0~git20110715.fdd2f19-13 | amd64, i386 Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers <debian-multimedia@lists.debian.org> ------------------- Reason ------------------- ---------------------------------------------- Checking reverse dependencies... # Broken Depends: kylin-video: kylin-video [amd64 i386] # Broken Build-Depends: kylin-video: libcrystalhd-dev Dependency problem found. Paul
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