Bug#845037: libschroedinger-1.0-0: is this package fit for stretch?

Moritz Muehlenhoff jmm at inutil.org
Sun Nov 20 10:57:23 UTC 2016


On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 07:17:12PM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> Package: libschroedinger-1.0-0
> Version: 1.0.11-2.1
> Severity: serious
> X-Debbugs-Cc: Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> libschroedinger contains various possibly security relevant bugs
> (see #787957 for the tip of the iceberg).
> 
> Furthermore it is no longer maintained upstream:
>  * last release from 2012
>  * homepage vanished
> 
> Thus I think stretch would be better of without this library.
> 
> As replacement, ffmpeg has a decent dirac decoder and also a
> vc2 encoder, which is the intra-only subset of dirac that
> got standardized by the SMPTE.

Andreas, thanks for filing this bug. Fully agreed from my side.

Cheers,
        Moritz



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