[gentoo-dev] Re: The state of libav stabilisation

[Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>]

On 12/09/2018 12:38, Andreas Sturmlechner wrote:
> Is there anyone still working on libav support? It appears to me that 
> transition[1] and stabilisation[2] trackers are stuck for a long time without 
> activity. Missing libav-12 stabilisation means that in several stable 
> packages, USE=libav is already inaccessible without manual unmasking of the 
> use flag. I am not prepared to start reverting upstream commits for <libav-12 
> support[3].
> 
> If this is not going to change, maybe media-video/libav should be dropped to 
> ~arch. This is still better than dropping support per-package or plastering 
> package.use.stable.mask with libav entries.
> 
> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=libav-12
> [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/617508
> [3] https://bugs.gentoo.org/665518
> 
> 
> 

I guess nobody had time to, libav-12 is working correctly on those arches.

Thanks for reminding us.

lu