Hi!
I believe this is FTBFSIASW, which is RC ("fails to build from source in a
sane way" -- a not-so-descriptive name for builds that technically succeed,
yet omit a good part of the package's content unless you manually do some
action during the build). You don't see that acronym often, as this problem
is on ftpmasters' checklist since quite some time and such a package won't
enter the archive in the first place. Yet lletters-media is both very old
and has only arch-indep parts so it has never been autobuilt.
The packaging also fails to fail on this error, which fools automated checks
(like Lucas Nussbaum's archive rebuilds).
I wouldn't be bringing up obscure RC categories, but the package seems to be
useless for a bunch of other reasons as well:
* clicking most buttons cause a crash
+ looking around, it's because of a hard assumption (not checked for!) of
OSS, which has been long dropped from Debian's kernels and for practical
purposes upstream as well
* GTK2 conversion is pretty incomplete
+ package description talks about technicalities of GTK1
+ no encoding handling (GTK2 uses UTF-8 internally), resulting in mojibake
* the code can be rewritten using a RAD tool in half an hour, or in a sane
language in not that much longer
* same for the data: you can find a more consistent set of better images on
a random site with freely licensed images in half an hour
* faulty locale detection
+ lletters look only at LANG, people tend to use LC_*
* in most locales, buttons tend to bring up no image, or a word from an
unrelated language
* it is dead upstream for 12 years
... and so on.
Thus, especially with the crashiness, are you sure it is fit for wheezy?
I'd suggest removing it from testing, and perhaps from unstable as well.
What would you say? Would it be better to request a removal, or try to fix
the problems?
(To be honest, what I really care about here is getting rid of #659345 in
some way, as lletters-media, the only package with filenames being invalid
UTF-8, stay in the way of a secret plan of mine.)
Meow!
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