hasufell schrieb: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464536 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470554 > > for the first bug: > net-libs/ortp media-libs/mediastreamer and net-voip/linphone > are from the same upstream and actually have to be bumped and > stabilized TOGETHER, because it is very likely that they break > otherwise. And that's exactly what happened. The maintainer was > probably aware of it, but didn't respond, so arch testers went ahead > and did not test reverse deps.
I already replied in the second bug but let me reiterate again. What I wrote in October 2012 to this list[1] is basically still true. Following retirements, there is nobody in voip team who is interested in these packages any more. Nobody in voip requested that these packages go stable. When I read bugzilla reports that version bumps (typically done as drive-by commits by outside developers) break consumers, then I sometimes update the dependencies to account for that. When I saw the second stabilization bug, I added the blocker, but the stabilization proceeded anyway due to technical issues with the robo-stable scripts. The ffmpeg-1.0 (and libav-9) situation got especially bad. For example, a ptlib ebuild was committed which introduced libav-9 compatibility, but also broke *every* *single* *consumer* of the package[2]! I have only little time to dedicate to voip packages, and cleaning up the mess that other developers leave is not a good way to use this time. > To me it seems one relies on the other to handle this and in the end > no one does? We have one user, Andrew Savchenko, who expressed interest to proxy maintain linphone and its dependencies via the voip overlay. I have offered to commit the ebuilds for him to g-x86. Unfortunately it was a lengthy process to allow him access to the overlay but that was cleared 10 days ago. Once he starts pushing new ebuilds to the overlay, I will add him as proxy maintainer in metadata.xml. Best regards, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/80638 [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474742
