From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EeHyM-0002Xa-Vb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:09:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jALK81bB032335; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:08:01 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.199]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jALJvQmF022217 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:57:26 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 4so925210nzn for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:57:26 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:x-face:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:sender; b=UNzIoEGKVndn1lR5rZHOHTVim0i3KdQ7BaULkGBLFFsW5TWVoQ1eDjzj1+xO2evzusHgMFo5Qw0Ocn3j0HjjXCLJMdyYS57SI3r6NfS8OP6hGVImzsUZmLijYvpDKKWN8u9c/4ua9axvZAPEsu9mKKQDVwevBWhsYSRI/3KfDfA= Received: by 10.65.197.4 with SMTP id z4mr3384326qbp; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:29:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org ( [151.56.125.78]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id e17sm263743qba.2005.11.21.11.29.18; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:29:19 -0800 (PST) From: "Diego 'Flameeyes' =?iso-8859-1?q?Petten=F2?=" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/helixplayer Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:29:03 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 X-Face: +=-v@W}H`=.Bn2t&97Un7{[.c0aP0"8)JI?7Z?E>l>ZNY|,=?utf-8?q?mL=5C3bs=0A=09xW=23jRz=7CVa=5C?=@NIS3-'W[F.^YLqK=rS:D*Ke`Y5giI@$(xIBQ<0i740;wuI{lYd>>=?utf-8?q?eFVDuAr=0A=09=3Br=5B*=7E/zd=604dEI?= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2656049.u0gx9BQbqO"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200511212029.15870@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> Sender: "=?UTF-8?Q?Diego=20\"Flameeyes\"=20Petten=C3=B2?=" X-Archives-Salt: b5d17d62-dc02-4218-897b-52d7704e3c6e X-Archives-Hash: 324d8c0f3c4a8091f5dd87428859c5b8 --nextPart2656049.u0gx9BQbqO Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline After realplayer the last week, also helixplayer is pending removal from th= e=20 tree. HelixPlayer, opensource player developed by Real and somewhat similar to=20 RealPlayer has a bad history of security vulnerabilities and it's still=20 vulnerable to a security issue (1.0.6 is out but still missing an ebuild). As the maintainership of this package is difficult, and the package by itse= lf=20 is a bit of a mess (for example it does only build fine on x86, no way it c= an=20 work on amd64 or other platforms AFAICS), I've masked it and it's pending=20 removal in 24h. As the release of 2.0 version is imminent [1], and that version *might* wor= k=20 better on non-x86 arches, the media-video herd reserve the possibility of a= =20 return when that version is released (hopefully with less security concerns= ). If someone wants to join the herd for maintaining this package, is absolute= ly=20 welcome. Knowing the past problems, if someone wants, it's also invited to= =20 write a maintainer's guide (similar to xine's[2]) so that if it's going to= =20 leave the team someone else will know how to treat it. [1] https://player.helixcommunity.org/2005/dev/plans.html [2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/video/xine.xml =2D-=20 Diego "Flameeyes" Petten=F2 - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ Gentoo/ALT lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE --nextPart2656049.u0gx9BQbqO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDgiALe2h1+2mHVWMRAsb9AKDr0jVuIjVfBQVw3xeUsuo8j8i6IACghYex hrxDF2cuZD0aqj1ikA7d69s= =0Zmc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2656049.u0gx9BQbqO-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list