On Tue, 06 Nov 2018 17:08:22 +0200 Mart Raudsepp <l...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Ühel kenal päeval, T, 06.11.2018 kell 12:00, kirjutas Alexis Ballier: > > On Mon, 05 Nov 2018 20:38:58 -0500 > > Craig Andrews <candr...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > > I think it's time to remove the mask on >=media-video/ffmpeg-4.0 > > > > > > ffmpeg 4 is in many distros (including Debian, Arch) and FreeBSD. > > > Upstreams are starting to require it, too. For example, Kodi 18 > > > and > > > media-plugins/gst-plugins-libav-16 will require it. > > > > > > The blocker issue https://bugs.gentoo.org/653678 has only 5 > > > blockers > > > against it right now: > > > * 654628 has a pull request out to fix it: > > > https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/10341 > > > * 655170 is for a package that (IMHO) should be last-rited: > > > media-libs/mediastreamer > > > * 666166 is for a package that (IMHO) should be last-rited: > > > media-plugins/vdr-image > > > * 655442 and 658128 are for media-video/mplayer and fixed > > > upstream, > > > requiring a new snapshot release > > > > > > What do we say? Can we set a date when the hard mask will be > > > removed? > > > > > > I think 6 months qualifies for ETIMEOUT, so go ahead and unmask > > it :) > > > > merge the github PR; I'll take care of mplayer > > I'm sorry, but what? > PR was filed yesterday, what 6 months are you talking about here? > Please respect your fellow developers. We have other commitments and > priorities and can't zero-day review a PR. Oh, sorry, I did not even check what the PR was about nor its uptime. It should definitely read as "get the PR merged" then. 6 months is when bugs started to be filled which by most standards a package not fixed within that time can be considered dead/unmaintained. I usually take no response for a couple of months as a green light to do it myself. > It is not GStreamer fault that ffmpeg breaks API and ABI without > parallel installability, much less so the distro maintainers of it. > If you/upstream don't make it parallel installable, then this is what > you get. Are you, seriously, suggesting this is the solution to all problems here ? Bests, Alexis.
