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 1EleVd-0001Qs-6S for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 03:37:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBC3am4S020448; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 03:36:48 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBC3Xj0c022851 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 03:33:45 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EleRc-0003Lr-OR for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 03:33:44 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EleQK-0007ba-TU for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 04:32:24 +0100 Received: from 206-163-248-179.yktn.hsdb.sasknet.sk.ca ([206.163.248.179]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 04:32:24 +0100 Received: from dirtyepic.sk by 206-163-248-179.yktn.hsdb.sasknet.sk.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 04:32:24 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: R Hill Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites for media-video/dvdrip Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 21:32:00 -0600 Message-ID: References: <200512081842.54652@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 206-163-248-179.yktn.hsdb.sasknet.sk.ca User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.6a1 (X11/20051211) In-Reply-To: <200512081842.54652@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 978f43fd-dfe1-45bc-b3d3-6d6eaef64ba9 X-Archives-Hash: f0d2aff0c4a4ebee57627766048f321c Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten wrote: > Oh well, media-video/dvdrip has many issues reported in bugzilla (some have > patches, most haven't), and depends on a version of transcode with many > issues, too (and force us to leave transcode 1 masked). > Nobody in video herd is looking at it right now, last bump was done by morfic, > and more would be needed. working on dvdrip is one of the things on my todo list, as soon as i finish rebuilding my system. please reconsider dropping packages just because they don't currently have a dedicated maintainer. if upstream is alive and people are using it, leave it alone. especially if it's a popular package with just a handful of bugs. also, it's a lot more likely you'll find a new maintainer for a package when it's already in the tree for people to discover and use. isn't this what the maintainer-needed alias is for? --de. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list