[gentoo-dev] The state of libav stabilisation

[gentoo-dev] The state of libav stabilisation

[Andreas Sturmlechner]

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

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

[Luca Barbato]

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

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

[Andreas Sturmlechner]

On Donnerstag, 13. September 2018 12:44:24 CEST Luca Barbato wrote:
> I guess nobody had time to, libav-12 is working correctly on those arches.
> 
> Thanks for reminding us.

Thanks for getting it going. Could someone please add themselves as a 
dedicated maintainer to media-video/libav? amd64 has a question regarding 
stabilisation[1] and it seems that assigning media-video does not suffice.  
Relaying via gentoo-dev list does not scale.

[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/617508