On 2012-05-04 23:49:27 (+0200), Manfred Tremmel <manf...@links2linux.de> wrote: > Am Freitag, 4. Mai 2012, 18:36:26 schrieb Cristian Morales Vega:
> > transcode is dead, let's accept it. And I see 11 packages that require > > it. Either the dependencies are wrong or those packages should have > > already started to move to something else. Those packages are usually > > DVD related... we are in 2012!!! DVDs??? Who uses those any more? > I maintaine some packages which are not updated for years, but used by > other packages, like transcode. What's the alternate to DVD's on linux? > Blue-Ray Disks with HDCP, AACS and BD+ or Video On Demand over Internet > with DRM and no Linux clients? DVDs are well supported and CSS is no > real problem, so it simply works with linux. > As long as I can manage transcode to build with new gcc versions and new > library versions from e.g. ffmpeg and no security problems are known, > why should we drop it? > > But more important. I somebody sees in the metadata that a package has > > a maintainer (even if that maintainer is not available any more) he > > is not going to offer himself to be the new maintainer. > In the past we lost a lot of maintainer entries in the packages, I don't > know when and why this happend. I'm also a littel bit confused, because > osc commands have changed a while ago. I'm not sure, how to set > maintainer entry for my packages once again. osc -Apackman maintainer --add=username --role=maintainer \ Essentials transcode "-Apackman" is assuming you have an alias "packman" on pmbs-api, like this, in ~/.oscrc: ---8<-------------------------------------------- ... [https://pmbs-api.links2linux.org] aliases=packman,pm user=... pass=... ---8<-------------------------------------------- If you need more permissions, please let me know (private email or poke me on IRC, I'm yaloki on irc://irc.freenode.net/#packman ;)) cheers -- -o) Pascal Bleser /\\ http://opensuse.org -- we haz green _\_v http://fosdem.org -- we haz conf
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