Bug#817199: transcode: should this package be removed?

[Sebastian Ramacher]

Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org
Control: severity -1 normal
Control: retitle -1 RM: transcode -- RoM; dead upstream, replacements exist
Control: clone -1 -2
Control: retitle -2 RM: dvdwizard -- RoQA; orphaned, dead upstream, blocking transcode removal
Control: block -1 by -2

On 2016-03-18 09:58:52, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 13.03.2016, 21:25 +0100 schrieb Sebastian Ramacher:
> > Yes, dvdwizard would have to be RoQ-ed if we are going to remove
> > transcode. But it's also dead upstream and orphaned.
> 
> Alright, let's go for it.
> 
> Anyway, since transcode is a command-line utility, it should be rather
> straightforward to convert dvdwizard to use something more advanced,
> e.g. ffmpeg. But until someone who urgently needs dvdwizard volunteers
> to do this, I think it should be alright to remove it from the archive.

Dear FTP masters, please remove transcode from unstable. From my initial mail
in this bug report:

> transcode is dead upstream since many years and it is also no longer really
> maintained Debian. We just keep sticking patches on top of it. I suppose most
> of its use-cases are also covered by other tools already available in Debian.
> Also, support for modern containers like mp4 is still very limited. So I think
> it's time to let it go.

Also, transcode will become RC-buggy once the ffmpeg 3.0 transition starts.

transcode has one reverse dependency: dvdwizard. dvdwizard is also dead upstream
and orphaned. Please remove it too.

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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