2014-02-22 18:26 GMT+01:00 Reinhard Tartler <[email protected]>: > On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Benjamin Drung <[email protected]> wrote: >> Am Mittwoch, den 12.02.2014, 20:49 -0500 schrieb Reinhard Tartler: >>> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Bálint Réczey <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > Hi, >>> > >>> > 2014-02-12 14:47 GMT+01:00 Reinhard Tartler <[email protected]>: >>> >> FYI: >>> >> >>> >> I intend to switch our system libdvdnav library to the version >>> >> provided on videolan. Some discussion on this fork can be seen on the >>> >> dvdnav mailing list: >>> >> >>> >> http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/dvdnav-discuss/2013-November/002001.html >>> >> >>> >> Please tell me if you have concerns, but I think this is the right >>> >> thing to do for Debian. FWIW, I believe that what we currently have in >>> >> git/master is good enough for unstable. I'll upload later this week >>> >> unless someone objects. >>> > I have concerns regarding the switch. >>> > XBMC ships its own (fork of) libdvdnav, too, but I think I have >>> > recently convinced >>> > them to try to upstream some of their contributions to libdvdnav [1] >>> > and I fail to >>> > immediately see why VLC couldn't do so. >>> >>> Well, the message I've quoted above explains this pretty well, I think. >>> >>> Did xbmc try to send the patches to j-b? Do you have a reference for >>> the upstream submissions? >>> >>> Note that this upload would fix a RC bug that we have right now, and I >>> currently see less problems in getting the xbmc patches into the >>> videolan branch. >> >> http://dvdnav.mplayerhq.hu/ states that their code was imported to the >> videolan git repositories. So the videolan developer didn't fork the >> library, but took over the development. So we can just ship the coming >> releases from videolan (which will be 5.0.0). I think Reinhard wanted to say yes here. :-)
>> >> Can we get the XBMC developers to integrate their changes into the >> library on videolan? > > I would say they have to sooner or later. Sure, I have been waiting waiting for the announcement [2]. XBMC devs are already working on simplifying and upstreaming the patches they carry [3]. Cheers, Balint [2] http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/dvdnav-discuss/2014-February/002115.html [3] https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/4107 _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
