Hi Stefan, On Wed, 12 Feb 2025, 18:30:36 +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote: > Hi Manfred > > Am 12.02.25 um 15:20 schrieb Manfred Hollstein: > > Hi there, > > > > we currently have version 1.5.1 of HandBrake in our Multimedia project. > > Looking at the upstream website <https://handbrake.fr/> shows, we're > > pretty far behind. > > > > Hans-Peter Jansen, being one of three maintainers of this package, sent a > > request to bring the package to version 1.6.0 over one year ago; that > > request raised some comments/questions to which he never responded. > > > > I as a user of that package thought to look into how difficult it would > > be to upgrade to the latest upstream version 1.9.0, and found out it > > isn't actually very difficult. That's why I approached the three > > maintainers > > > > Hans-Peter Jansen > > I last read from Hans-Peter in early 2023, he also no longer seems to be > active in the build.o.o vdr project. > > > David Haller > > The last time I read anything from David was in 2021. > > > Pascal Leser > > The last time i read from Pascal was in 2017 > > So don't expect them to be still active but just take over the package ;-)
I can add myself as a maintainer as I'm already a Multimedia maintainer ;-) > > 10 days ago via direct e-mail to review my request and comment on it. > > All three people are long time maintainers and users both in SUSE Linux > > and here at Packman. I did not receive any response, hence I thought to > > ask for feedback here. If you are interested in a new version of > > HandBrake, please give the packages at > > > > <https://pmbs.links2linux.org/package/show/home:manfred-h/handbrake> > > > > a chance and download and test them on your system. If project > > maintainers for the Multimedia project read this and would like to > > review the SR, please do so: > > > > <https://pmbs.links2linux.org/request/show/6239> > > > > If the package maintainers are still active, please do so, too! > > For whatever reason I already forgot, I am a maintainer of Multimedia, so I > accepted the package. Thanks a lot! > One thing to consider are the _constraints: are the 6GB RAM really necessary > or just "nice to have"? requiring more than 4G (probably more than 3.5G > actually) leaves only one ARM worker being able to build it, so if it is > possible to tone that down, that would be useful. I just checked and, no, it's definitely not necessary! I inherited that file from HP's SR, so, it's not required and I'll remove it now. > Happy packaging! > > seife Cheers. l8er manfred
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