On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 03:27:34PM -0300, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting James Cowgill (2019-07-27 12:48:23)
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 27/07/2019 15:52, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > > Quoting James Cowgill (2019-07-27 11:12:00)
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >>> ffmpeg currently links with libcrystalhd3.
> > >>>
> > >>> It seems, however, 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
> > >>>
> > >>> I suggest to simply stop link with libcrystalhd3 until
> > >>> firmware-crystalhd reappear in Debian.
> > >>
> > >> I've disables crystalhd.
> [...]
> > Should we completely remove libcrystalhd3 from the archive as well in
> > that case (given what you wrote above)?
>
> Yes, unless anyone steps up and points outan actual working use-case of
> the library, we should (have all its reverse dependencies stop link
> against it and) remove it from Debian altogether.
Can you please file an RC bug against libcrystalhd3 so that we have that
on record in the BTS?
Cheers,
Moritz
