Control: found -1 1.0.2-7.1 Control: tags + sid stretch Control: severity -1 serious
On 2014-10-17 22:25:24, peter green wrote: > Package: dirac > > The dirac package seems pretty unloved. It's only ever had one upstream > version in debian and all of the recent uploads have been "team uploads", > mostly tweaking the packaging with a handful of FTBFS fixes. > > The package fails to build on armhf with gcc-4.9 with a testsuite segfault > and has been that way for months (see bug 756777). It doesn't appear there > is anyone with the time/inclination to properly debug this and work out > whether it's a true bug in the compiler or some reliance on undefined > behaviour in the dirac code. > > Furthermore the package seems to have mostly been replaced by Schrödinger . > The decoder seems to have no remaining reverse dependencies and the encoder > seems to have only one reverse dependency remaining. Unfortunately that one > remaining dependency is a fairly imporant package, namely > gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad . > > Upstream also seems to be trying to push people towards Schrödinger. Thier > website says > > "The Dirac project maintains two encoder implementations: dirac-research, a > research encoder, and Schrödinger, which is meant for user applications. > Schrödinger outperforms dirac-research in most encoding situations, both in > terms of encoding speed and visual quality." > > And there do not appear to have been any new releases of the plain dirac > package since 2009. > > As a band aid for jessie. I just uploaded a NMU to use 4.8 on armhf but that > is not a long term soloution. I am raising this to serious, so we do not release stretch with dirac. Cheers -- Sebastian Ramacher
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