Package: casparcg-server
Version: 2.3.3+dfsg-3.2
Severity: serious
User:
debian-qa@lists.debian.org
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.
<div dir="ltr"><pre class="gmail-message gmail-flowed" style="padding-top:8px;margin-top:0px;border-top:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Package: casparcg-server
Version: 2.3.3+dfsg-3.2
Severity: serious
User: <a href="mailto:
debian-qa@lists.debian.org">
debian-qa@lists.debian.org</a>
Usertags: proposed-removal</pre><pre class="gmail-message gmail-flowed" style="padding-top:8px;margin-top:0px;border-top:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I am the maintainer of the upstream project, and I have had a few bug reports recently because of the packaging
here.</pre><pre class="gmail-message gmail-flowed" style="padding-top:8px;margin-top:0px;border-top:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I should start with adding that there is no current maintainer of the debian package <a href="
https://bugs.debian.org/1071139">https:
//bugs.debian.org/1071139</a> and the package has been removed from testing as it FTBFS <a href="
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1560497/">https://tracker.debian.org/news/1560497/</a>
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). </pre><pre class="
gmail-message gmail-flowed" style="padding-top:8px;margin-top:0px;border-top:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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 <a href="
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/casparcg-server/+bug/1988036">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/casparcg-server/+bug/1988036</a>. I was able to reproduce this bug, and this has also been reported upstream.</pre><pre class="gmail-message
gmail-flowed" style="padding-top:8px;margin-top:0px;border-top:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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 <a href="
https://github.com/CasparCG/server/commit/6bb06aa7cb2c409dff4ba4978c979c29a09c8034">https://github.com/CasparCG/server/commit/6bb06aa7cb2c409dff4ba4978c979c29a09c8034</a>.
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). </pre><pre class="gmail-message gmail-flowed" style="padding-top:8px;margin-top:0px;border-top:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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.</pre><pre class="gmail-message gmail-flowed" style="padding-top:8px;margin-top:0px;border-top:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">So please remove this package. If
possible I think it should be removed from current releases too, but I suspect that is against policy.</pre></div>
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