Bug#674634: transition: celt
On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 01:16:17AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 18:38:11 +0930, Ron wrote:
>
> > Package: release.debian.org
> > Severity: normal
> > User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> > Usertags: transition
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > We'd like to remove the celt package from the distro for the Wheezy release.
> > CELT was an experimental codec from Xiph, and that work has now been merged
> > into the Opus codec which is about to be ratified as an IETF standard.
> >
> The only rdep left in testing at this point is mumble. What's the plan
> here?
There are too many things that still need fixing with mumble at this stage for
me to recommend it as a viable release candidate for wheezy. It currently
FTBFS now that boost1.46 was removed, and I don't know yet if that will just
need the build-dep adjusted, or actual changes to the source - which is kind
of academic while it's also still blocked by the zeroc-ice ABI breakage of
#672066 (which at this stage is debian specific, and we have no idea what
zeroc-ice upstream is really going to do to make it work with gcc 4.7).
So the best plan I have right now would be to remove mumble from testing and
worry about fixing its problems in unstable with a free hand (knowing we won't
be annoying the release team with large patches to review - which I'm pretty
sure it's going to need still before this is all in good shape again).
That will let you close this bug - and also give you the option of removing
zeroc-ice too if that bug doesn't get a sane fix soon (since mumble is also
its only rdep). Shipping that in its current state doesn't really seem like
something I'd recommend either, but that one is less of my call to make ...
Cheers,
Ron
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