The library has stopped being developed and Debian has removed it from its repositories citing security issues. The native Dirac decoder supports everything the library has and basic encoding support is still provided via the native vc2 (Dirac Pro, intra only version of Dirac) encoder. Hence, there's no reason to still support linking to the library and potentially leading users into security issues.
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| @@ -617,7 +617,6 @@ static void register_all(void) · 616 unmodified lines | |||
| 617 | REGISTER_ENCDEC (LIBOPENJPEG, libopenjpeg); | 617 | REGISTER_ENCDEC (LIBOPENJPEG, libopenjpeg); |
| 618 | REGISTER_ENCDEC (LIBOPUS, libopus); | 618 | REGISTER_ENCDEC (LIBOPUS, libopus); |
| 619 | REGISTER_DECODER(LIBRSVG, librsvg); | 619 | REGISTER_DECODER(LIBRSVG, librsvg); |
| 620 | REGISTER_ENCDEC (LIBSCHROEDINGER, libschroedinger); | ||
| 621 | REGISTER_ENCODER(LIBSHINE, libshine); | 620 | REGISTER_ENCODER(LIBSHINE, libshine); |
| 622 | REGISTER_ENCDEC (LIBSPEEX, libspeex); | 621 | REGISTER_ENCDEC (LIBSPEEX, libspeex); |
| 623 | REGISTER_ENCODER(LIBTHEORA, libtheora); | 622 | REGISTER_ENCODER(LIBTHEORA, libtheora); |