Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org On Fri, 03 Jan 2025 at 15:41:45 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > As suggested by Simon (full context below), lets remove this package now
The ftp team won't do that until/unless the bug is reassigned to them, so I'm doing that now. > Only one rdeps remains (BTS blocker set, so it will disappear once the fix > is uploaded). I believe this was gst-plugins-bad1.0, which was uploaded today to disable the directfb feature. Original report quoted below for the ftp team. > On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:06:52 +0100 Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> wrote: > > Source: directfb > > Severity: serious > > Justification: ensure visibility for potential adopters > > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-arm@lists.debian.org, debian...@lists.debian.org > > User: debian...@lists.debian.org > > Usertags: directfb > > > > directfb has been unmaintained in Debian since 2018, and its web pages > > directfb.org and directfb.net seem to have been domain-squatted. > > > > In practice, DirectFB targeted highly resource-constrained embedded > > systems, most of which are likely to be no longer relevant: much of the > > embedded market has been eaten by Android, and outside the Android world > > the replacement for directfb is typically to use X11, Wayland or maybe > > KMSDRM, which have an acceptable footprint on modern hardware and make > > better use of discrete or integrated GPUs. > > > > There are maintained(?) forks of DirectFB at > > https://github.com/deniskropp/DirectFB and https://directfb2.github.io/ > > (possibly others) but as far as I'm aware, nobody is packaging those. > > > > Typical graphical toolkits like GTK and SDL have generally been removing > > DirectFB support: it was present (but did not necessarily work well) in > > GTK 2 and SDL 2, and available as a third-party plugin for Qt 4 and 5, > > but seems to have been removed from GTK 3, SDL 3 and Qt 6. > > > > Older versions of the graphical debian-installer used GTK 2 on DirectFB, > > but current versions use GTK on X11. > > > > If nobody is intending to take over maintenance of directfb, is it time > > to remove it from Debian? Thanks, smcv
