Bug#702762: "More or less" dead upstream

[Bálint Réczey]

2014/1/11 Reinhard Tartler <siretart at gmail.com>:
> For deinterlacing, have you looked at vf_yadif, (part of libavfilter)?
> That would give you much better deinterlacing results anyways.
No I haven't, but I will. Thanks.

>
> Regarding filing bugs, you may be right. Do you have some spare cycles
> and would be willing to start filing the bugs?  OTOH, I'm not sure if
> that's strictly necessary, because packages depending on this won't
> migrate to testing, as you mentioned earlier. Maybe a lintian warning
> would be more helpful, such as seen in #730714.
Sure, I can file the bugs in a few days. I think filing bugs is the best way of
starting the removal of libpostproc. There are only a few packages
depending on it,
thus adding a linitian warning may be overkill:
$ apt-cache rdepends libpostproc52
libpostproc52
Reverse Depends:
  libxine2-ffmpeg
  libxine1-ffmpeg
  xbmc-bin
  vlc-nox
  transcode
  mpv
  mplayer2
  mplayer-gui
  mplayer
  mencoder
  libpostproc-dev
  gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
  libgmerlin-avdec1
  ffmpeg2theora

Regarding the migration libpostproc is missing only from stable, it is present
in testing thus every package using it can still migrate and I think it is OK.

>
> I did not push very hard on this issue because I wanted to see if
> there would be any upstream activity and it would make sense to keep
> libpostproc anyways. It turns out that the upstream repository
> http://git.videolan.org/?p=libpostproc.git  didn't see real functional
> development that aren't build fixes for years. Moreover, nobody
> stepped up to take over the package. Now 1.5y later, it may be a good
> time to phase libpostproc out of debian for good.
I think we should discuss the mass bug filing on debian-devel in advance,
but otherwise I'm OK with the removal. Would you like to announce the
removal?

I will migrate XBMC to libavfilter when I can find some time for that.

Cheers,
Balint