I am not a gentoo developer, but a user, but I have submitted several
fixes for dvdrip in the past, and plan on continuing to use it, and get
it running and working in gentoo. I would be happy to maintain it, or
simply try to more responsively post fixes in the future to Bugzilla if
it would keep this package alive in portage. I think it is a very good
dvd ripping utility, and it _does_ work w/ transcode-1, the dvdrip
upstream developer simply still bases his work off of 0.6.x. He is
currently considering moving to transcode-1, so I doubt this package
will need to continue to be dependant on the difficult to manage
transcode version.
As a user currently, what steps could I take to help this package stay
alive? I will take them as the alternative is to put an unofficial
ebuild up on a webpage.
-Chandler Carruth
Roy Marples wrote:
On Thursday 08 December 2005 20:23, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
On Thursday 08 December 2005 21:10, Mike Frysinger wrote:
so the video herd policy is to remove packages until you're left with
a small enough subset of packages you can handle ?
No, it's to remove the packages that have problems, that requires
dependencies that are badly broken (transcode 0.6 is a pain to manage, does
not work with GCC4 and it's not easily fixable, and upstream moved to
transcode 1), that requires maintenance and nobody can give it, and that
might be replaced by other programs with way less troubles...
To be fair, you can hardly count GCC4 as it's not even in our unstable tree
yet (and yes, I know it will be soon).
Ya know, dhcpcd was in the same state. Unmaintained, didn't compile with GCC4
and upstream was dead. Didn't hear any calls to remove it from the tree
though as it was (and still is I suppose) the default dhcp client even though
all the others are coded much better.
If you want to maintain that, no need for it to be removed... atm it's
going to be unmaintained in the tree, full of problems, and requires us to
not plan of dropping transcode 0.6.
I have no wish to maintain it, but if it compiles then there is no need to
remove it. So it's unmaintained - so was openvpn and net-misc/dhcp for pretty
much a year or so until I stepped up.
So if no-one steps up then let it sit in the tree if people are using it.
Roy
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