Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/dvdrip

2005-12-09 Thread Luca Barbato
Mike Frysinger wrote: so the video herd policy is to remove packages until you're left with a small enough subset of packages you can handle ? -mike I'd rather say that we select packages that evolve and fit the needs and kill what isn't suitable anymore. There are still many way to shoot

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/dvdrip

2005-12-09 Thread Luca Barbato
Chandler Carruth wrote: As a user currently, what steps could I take to help this package stay alive? I will take them as the alternative is to put an unofficial ebuild up on a webpage. On my to be killed list I have transcode 1 avifile transcode 1 is already there and seems in good

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/dvdrip

2005-12-09 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 01:09:50AM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: so the video herd policy is to remove packages until you're left with a small enough subset of packages you can handle ? I'd rather say that we select packages that evolve and fit the needs and kill what

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/dvdrip

2005-12-09 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Frysinger wrote: | so the video herd policy is to remove packages until you're left with | a small enough subset of packages you can handle ? Quite a contrast with the x11 herd policy: to add packages until there's 10x more than you can

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/dvdrip

2005-12-09 Thread Daniel Goller
On Friday 09 December 2005 08:19 pm, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 01:09:50AM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: so the video herd policy is to remove packages until you're left with a small enough subset of packages you can handle ? I'd rather say that we

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/dvdrip

2005-12-08 Thread Benoit Boissinot
On 12/8/05, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another package is taking a long long way that goes out of portage. I'm running out of openings for these mails, you know? Oh well, media-video/dvdrip has many issues reported in bugzilla (some have patches, most haven't), and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/dvdrip

2005-12-08 Thread Chris Bainbridge
On 08/12/05, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another package is taking a long long way that goes out of portage. I'm running out of openings for these mails, you know? Alternative dvd-ripping software is present in portage, starting from mencoder and its frontends, and they

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/dvdrip

2005-12-08 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Thursday 08 December 2005 19:12, Chris Bainbridge wrote: Er, isn't dvdrip the most popular ripping software on Linux? Popular, maybe, but there're enough bug to make it a difficult task to maintain. Current versions are tested only on transcode 0.6 (I'm sure that at least the versions that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/dvdrip

2005-12-08 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 08:46:31PM +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten? wrote: If a new maintainer is found, fine, it can remain, but currently the resources of Video team are limited and we have enough problems to take care of without dvdrip. so the video herd policy is to remove packages

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/dvdrip

2005-12-08 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Thursday 08 December 2005 21:10, Mike Frysinger wrote: so the video herd policy is to remove packages until you're left with a small enough subset of packages you can handle ? No, it's to remove the packages that have problems, that requires dependencies that are badly broken (transcode 0.6

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/dvdrip

2005-12-08 Thread Roy Marples
On Thursday 08 December 2005 20:23, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: On Thursday 08 December 2005 21:10, Mike Frysinger wrote: so the video herd policy is to remove packages until you're left with a small enough subset of packages you can handle ? No, it's to remove the packages that have

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/dvdrip

2005-12-08 Thread Chandler Carruth
I am not a gentoo developer, but a user, but I have submitted several fixes for dvdrip in the past, and plan on continuing to use it, and get it running and working in gentoo. I would be happy to maintain it, or simply try to more responsively post fixes in the future to Bugzilla if it would