Moin, On Fri, 24 Feb 2017, 11:36:11 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: > Am Fri, 24 Feb 2017 11:09:42 +0100 > schrieb Manfred Hollstein <[email protected]>: > > > Indeed! Another example why the current approach to rely on some > > packages being provided by Factory first is kodi-17. > > This is more an issue with the workflow. > > Using 'osc bco Multimedia kodi' would have shown the issue right away. > There is no need to rush anything in. If a required library comes from > OBS or PMBS does not matter much. It has to be decided on a > case-by-case base how to satisfy the requirements. In case of libcec we > should just have waited until it appears in TW. In case of the recent > ABI change in libbluray it was clear that certain changes can not be > done globally.
agreed, this has nothing to do with the "way forward" discussion. > > And when packages get removed, again, this needs some way of > > communication, potentially with reasons included and hints what should > > be used instead - this can be currently seen on openSUSE_Leap_42.1 > > where several gstreamer related packages (0_10 version) either would > > need to get downgraded to those versions from OBS, or they don't even > > exist anymore (like libaudio2 or libslv2), but are still required by > > other packages (like MPlayer2). > > I think MPlayer2 was dropped. Installed but orphaned packages are hard > to handle. Nope, I just looked at one of the mirrors, and it's still there for 42.1: ncftp ...42.1/Essentials/x86_64 > dir -rw-rw-r-- 1 1003 1003 2896873 Feb 23 21:28 MPlayer-1.2.r37916-4.2.x86_64.rpm What would be a proper replacement for full mplayer/mencoder functionality? > [...] > Also it would be helpful if the email setup would work properly. Only a > subset of the submit_request emails are sent. > > And perhaps each mail should be mirrored to this list to reach a wider > audience. But that may create too much noise for the "ordinary" lurker. I wouldn't mind receiving such stuff, and everybody else could just filter them away. > Olaf Cheers. l8er manfred
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