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and subject line Bug#1101452: Removed package(s) from unstable
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regarding RM: casparcg-server -- RoQA; unmaintained, FTBFS
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Package: casparcg-server
Version: 2.3.3+dfsg-3.2
Severity: serious
User: [email protected]
Usertags: proposed-removal
I am the maintainer of the upstream project, and I have had a few bug
reports recently because of the packaging here.
I should start with adding that there is no current maintainer of the
debian package https://bugs.debian.org/1071139 and the package has
been removed from testing as it FTBFS
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1560497/
popcon shows only a handful (<10) users of the package.
There are new releases upstream from april 2024 which have not been
pulled in due to lack of a debian maintainer, the latest of which are
buildable on stable without needing any patches (I am maintaining some
deb packaging now too).
There is a bug report from late 2022 (with no maintainer respose)
against ubuntu 22.04 where the package fails to run for some (maybe
all?) users
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/casparcg-server/+bug/1988036.
I was able to reproduce this bug, and this has also been reported
upstream.
The most recent report upstream has revealed that the package in
ubuntu 24.04 is largely unusable due to some needed updates to ffmpeg
api usage. This bug I suspect affects builds against ffmpeg 5.0 and
later based on the fix upstream
https://github.com/CasparCG/server/commit/6bb06aa7cb2c409dff4ba4978c979c29a09c8034.
If this is an accurate assessment, this means it will affect ubuntu
22.10 and later, and likely debian stable (bookworm).
I think the lack of this being reported confirms that there are no
real users of this package. I believe this means that every version of
the package in a non EOL debian/ubuntu release is broken (there is no
package in old-stable, due to it being FTBFS at the time).
Additionally, the versions packaged here are bit limited due to CEF
not being available as a debian package. Due to this limitation I
believe that these builds will not be useful to a large proportion of
the userbase.
So please remove this package. If possible I think it should be
removed from current releases too, but I suspect that is against
policy.
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--- Begin Message ---
We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:
casparcg-server | 2.3.3+dfsg-3.2 | source
casparcg-server | 2.3.3+dfsg-3.2+b1 | amd64, arm64
------------------- Reason -------------------
RoQA; unmaintained, FTBFS
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Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag
database and may (or may not) still be in the pool; this is not a bug.
The package(s) will be physically removed automatically when no suite
references them (and in the case of source, when no binary references
it). Please also remember that the changes have been done on the
master archive and will not propagate to any mirrors until the next
dinstall run at the earliest.
Packages are usually not removed from testing by hand. Testing tracks
unstable and will automatically remove packages which were removed
from unstable when removing them from testing causes no dependency
problems. The release team can force a removal from testing if it is
really needed, please contact them if this should be the case.
We try to close bugs which have been reported against this package
automatically. But please check all old bugs, if they were closed
correctly or should have been re-assigned to another package.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
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