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

[Chandler Carruth <chandlerc@gmail.com>]

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 keep this package alive in portage. I think it is a very good 
dvd ripping utility, and it _does_ work w/ transcode-1, the dvdrip 
upstream developer simply still bases his work off of 0.6.x. He is 
currently considering moving to transcode-1, so I doubt this package 
will need to continue to be dependant on the difficult to manage 
transcode version.

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.

-Chandler Carruth

Roy Marples wrote:

>On Thursday 08 December 2005 20:23, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
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>>On Thursday 08 December 2005 21:10, Mike Frysinger wrote:
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>>>so the video herd policy is to remove packages until you're left with
>>>a small enough subset of packages you can handle ?
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>>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...
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>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).
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>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.
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>>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.
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>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.
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>So if no-one steps up then let it sit in the tree if people are using it.
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>Roy
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