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

[Roy Marples <uberlord@gentoo.org>]

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 problems, that requires
> dependencies that are badly broken (transcode 0.6 is a pain to manage, does
> not work with GCC4 and it's not easily fixable, and upstream moved to
> transcode 1), that requires maintenance and nobody can give it, and that
> might be replaced by other programs with way less troubles...

To be fair, you can hardly count GCC4 as it's not even in our unstable tree 
yet (and yes, I know it will be soon).

Ya know, dhcpcd was in the same state. Unmaintained, didn't compile with GCC4 
and upstream was dead. Didn't hear any calls to remove it from the tree 
though as it was (and still is I suppose) the default dhcp client even though 
all the others are coded much better.

>
> If you want to maintain that, no need for it to be removed... atm it's
> going to be unmaintained in the tree, full of problems, and requires us to
> not plan of dropping transcode 0.6.

I have no wish to maintain it, but if it compiles then there is no need to 
remove it. So it's unmaintained - so was openvpn and net-misc/dhcp for pretty 
much a year or so until I stepped up.

So if no-one steps up then let it sit in the tree if people are using it.

Roy

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