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 4.54) id 1EkUm9-0008Vi-IE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Dec 2005 23:02:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jB8N1TxM002369; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 23:01:29 GMT Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.195]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jB8MxZIC022730 for ; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 22:59:36 GMT Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id h29so491919wxd for ; Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:59:35 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Svjxek2pHuvzyjiiOUtC0sF6MVZZKdQ2AO9vQ9Leq/KixmQM+167YDLYx4NgO/0Yz71yQFVEvGQHT/5YZGgQIOu0h8IJrKMIHqMAvpzgUzkio9ixISmelJlE31ATBfM2MWxHtdd8dk5nMMSORbGCT2684o3mZ2Z1SxaIDYG9CUQ= Received: by 10.70.115.9 with SMTP id n9mr4647475wxc; Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:59:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.0.100? ( [24.167.188.156]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id h19sm4028462wxd.2005.12.08.14.59.34; Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:59:34 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4398BAD0.5040508@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 17:59:28 -0500 From: Chandler Carruth User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/dvdrip References: <200512081842.54652@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <20051208201024.GC11950@toucan.gentoo.org> <200512082123.47267@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <200512082047.58623.uberlord@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200512082047.58623.uberlord@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id jB8N1T12002369 X-Archives-Salt: 5d4da28d-fbc8-495d-9818-70db08a85399 X-Archives-Hash: 3563bacbcba33c163ffbda8339f5f17e I am not a gentoo developer, but a user, but I have submitted several=20 fixes for dvdrip in the past, and plan on continuing to use it, and get=20 it running and working in gentoo. I would be happy to maintain it, or=20 simply try to more responsively post fixes in the future to Bugzilla if=20 it would keep this package alive in portage. I think it is a very good=20 dvd ripping utility, and it _does_ work w/ transcode-1, the dvdrip=20 upstream developer simply still bases his work off of 0.6.x. He is=20 currently considering moving to transcode-1, so I doubt this package=20 will need to continue to be dependant on the difficult to manage=20 transcode version. As a user currently, what steps could I take to help this package stay=20 alive? I will take them as the alternative is to put an unofficial=20 ebuild up on a webpage. -Chandler Carruth Roy Marples wrote: >On Thursday 08 December 2005 20:23, Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten=C3=B2 wrote= : > =20 > >>On Thursday 08 December 2005 21:10, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> =20 >> >>>so the video herd policy is to remove packages until you're left with >>>a small enough subset of packages you can handle ? >>> =20 >>> >>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 tha= t >>might be replaced by other programs with way less troubles... >> =20 >> > >To be fair, you can hardly count GCC4 as it's not even in our unstable t= ree=20 >yet (and yes, I know it will be soon). > >Ya know, dhcpcd was in the same state. Unmaintained, didn't compile with= GCC4=20 >and upstream was dead. Didn't hear any calls to remove it from the tree=20 >though as it was (and still is I suppose) the default dhcp client even t= hough=20 >all the others are coded much better. > > =20 > >>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. >> =20 >> > >I have no wish to maintain it, but if it compiles then there is no need = to=20 >remove it. So it's unmaintained - so was openvpn and net-misc/dhcp for p= retty=20 >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 > > =20 > --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list