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and subject line Bug#1083037: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #1083037,
regarding RM: directfb -- RoQA; RC-buggy, unmaintained
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Source: directfb
Severity: serious
Justification: ensure visibility for potential adopters
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
User: [email protected]
Usertags: directfb
directfb has been unmaintained in Debian since 2018, and its web pages
directfb.org and directfb.net seem to have been domain-squatted.
In practice, DirectFB targeted highly resource-constrained embedded
systems, most of which are likely to be no longer relevant: much of the
embedded market has been eaten by Android, and outside the Android world
the replacement for directfb is typically to use X11, Wayland or maybe
KMSDRM, which have an acceptable footprint on modern hardware and make
better use of discrete or integrated GPUs.
There are maintained(?) forks of DirectFB at
https://github.com/deniskropp/DirectFB and https://directfb2.github.io/
(possibly others) but as far as I'm aware, nobody is packaging those.
Typical graphical toolkits like GTK and SDL have generally been removing
DirectFB support: it was present (but did not necessarily work well) in
GTK 2 and SDL 2, and available as a third-party plugin for Qt 4 and 5,
but seems to have been removed from GTK 3, SDL 3 and Qt 6.
Older versions of the graphical debian-installer used GTK 2 on DirectFB,
but current versions use GTK on X11.
If nobody is intending to take over maintenance of directfb, is it time
to remove it from Debian?
When I've received a bug number for this bug, I'll block it by bugs
against the remaining reverse-dependencies:
baresip
directvnc
gst-plugins-bad1.0
links2
xine-lib-1.2
I'm cc'ing debian-arm since that seems like the platform where DirectFB
is most likely to be relevant.
smcv
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We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:
directfb | 1.7.7-13 | source
lib++dfb-1.7-7t64 | 1.7.7-13 | amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips64el,
ppc64el, riscv64, s390x
libdirectfb-1.7-7t64 | 1.7.7-13 | amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips64el,
ppc64el, riscv64, s390x
libdirectfb-bin | 1.7.7-13 | amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips64el,
ppc64el, riscv64, s390x
libdirectfb-dev | 1.7.7-13 | amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips64el,
ppc64el, riscv64, s390x
libdirectfb-extra | 1.7.7-13 | amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips64el,
ppc64el, riscv64, s390x
------------------- Reason -------------------
RoQA; RC-buggy, unmaintained
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Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag
database and may (or may not) still be in the pool; this is not a bug.
The package(s) will be physically removed automatically when no suite
references them (and in the case of source, when no binary references
it). Please also remember that the changes have been done on the
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unstable and will automatically remove packages which were removed
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