On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 at 19:50, Michael Schwendt <mschwe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 12:17:00 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > recordmydesktop was retired in F27: > > > > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/4RCB6MBC4JVGG4SYLIKUDOOT2REGA6N4/ > > > > It's claimed that it doesn't work and is full of crash bugs, but I was > > able to compile it on F29 and it works fine for me, and it's a very > > useful little tool. > > Quoting https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1538352#c1 > > | Yes, recordmydesktop was intentionally retired due to the project being > | abandoned (no new release in 10 years), it contained many crash bugs, > | and was not at all working on Wayland. > > There are various WONTFIX and EOL issues tracked in bugzilla. Bringing > back the package without going through those tickets first doesn't sound > like a good idea. > Agreed. Not only did I get quite regular abrt reports for both recordmydesktop and gtk-recordmydesktop, I also received a good deal of flak from people who had the (quite reasonable, IMO) expectation that it would work on our default windowing system... So I suppose you take ownership of it at your own peril. -- Mat Booth http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora
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