Also, I'm not sure what's going on: *I did try* to file an orphaned request
over a month ago on WNPP but I never received a failure or confirmation notice…
-Andrew
On 17 Mar 2014, at 4:50 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko <y...@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Thanks for checking out...
>
> $> strace -f python -c 'from pyglet.media import avbin' 2>&1 | grep libavbin
> [pid 19888] open("/usr/lib/libavbin.so.0", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 8
>
> so it is not per se the psychopy which depends on avbin but pyglet (I guess
> just misses the needed recommends or suggests)
>
> Jon (psychopy upstream, CCed) -- am I seeing it right that
> we do need avbin for Movie stimuli without any alternative currently?
>
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2014, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
>
>> On 2014-03-17 08:32:21, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>>> Package: avbin
>>> Severity: serious
>
>>> Hi,
>
>>> I'm wondering if this package is still actively maintained? I cannot> >
>>> help but noticing that the debian avbin package lacks several upstream
>>> versions behind, and has seen its latest maintainer upload almost 5
>>> years ago.
>
>>> If the current maintainers think it would be best to let this package
>>> go, then I'd suggest to reassign this bug against ftp.debian.org and
>>> ask for its removal. Otherwise, I'd suggest to close this bug by
>>> uploading a new upstream version (and consider orphaning this
>>> package).
>
>>> In any case, I'd suggest to remove avbin from testing for the time
>>> being to not hold up the libav10 transition further, which is file I
>>> file this bug with severity "serious".
>
>> Note that psychopy is the only reverse dependency of avbin:
>
>> % dak rm -Rn avbin
>> Will remove the following packages from unstable:
>
>> avbin | 7-1.4 | source
>> libavbin-dev | 7-1.4 | amd64, armel, armhf, hurd-i386, i386,
>> kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390x, sparc
>> libavbin0 | 7-1.4 | amd64, armel, armhf, hurd-i386, i386,
>> kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390x, sparc
>
>> Maintainer: Andrew Straw <straw...@astraw.com>
>
>> ------------------- Reason -------------------
>
>> ----------------------------------------------
>
>> Checking reverse dependencies...
>> # Broken Build-Depends:
>> psychopy: libavbin0
>
>> Dependency problem found.
>
>
>> CCing the psychopy maintainers for their input. If psychopy could drop
>> the build dependency on avbin, I think there is no reason to keep avbin
>> in Debian any longer.
>
>> Regards
> --
> Yaroslav O. Halchenko, Ph.D.
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