Bug#765776: gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad: libdirac is unmaintained upstream - please stop link against it if at all possible

[Sebastian Ramacher]

Control: severity -1 serious

On 2014-10-18 02:18:49, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Package: gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
> Version: 0.10.23-7.4
> Severity: normal
> 
> As reported in bug#765766, libdirac is unmaintained upstream for quite
> some time.
> 
> It seems gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad links against both libdirac and its
> successor libschroedinger - please check if possible to simply drop
> linkage against libdirac - ideally *now* before the freeze, so as to
> avoid having to keep libdirac alive for the lifecycle of Jessie.

This is the only reverse dependency of dirac that is left and blocking its
removal. So I'm increasing the severity to serious. I have also prepared an NMU
to drop the dirac dependency.

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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