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hasufell schrieb: |
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> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464536 |
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> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470554 |
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> for the first bug: |
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> net-libs/ortp media-libs/mediastreamer and net-voip/linphone |
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> are from the same upstream and actually have to be bumped and |
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> stabilized TOGETHER, because it is very likely that they break |
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> otherwise. And that's exactly what happened. The maintainer was |
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> probably aware of it, but didn't respond, so arch testers went ahead |
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> and did not test reverse deps. |
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I already replied in the second bug but let me reiterate again. What I |
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wrote in October 2012 to this list[1] is basically still true. |
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Following retirements, there is nobody in voip team who is interested in |
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these packages any more. Nobody in voip requested that these packages go |
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stable. When I read bugzilla reports that version bumps (typically done |
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as drive-by commits by outside developers) break consumers, then I |
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sometimes update the dependencies to account for that. When I saw the |
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second stabilization bug, I added the blocker, but the stabilization |
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proceeded anyway due to technical issues with the robo-stable scripts. |
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The ffmpeg-1.0 (and libav-9) situation got especially bad. For example, |
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a ptlib ebuild was committed which introduced libav-9 compatibility, but |
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also broke *every* *single* *consumer* of the package[2]! I have only |
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little time to dedicate to voip packages, and cleaning up the mess that |
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other developers leave is not a good way to use this time. |
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> To me it seems one relies on the other to handle this and in the end |
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> no one does? |
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We have one user, Andrew Savchenko, who expressed interest to proxy |
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maintain linphone and its dependencies via the voip overlay. I have |
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offered to commit the ebuilds for him to g-x86. Unfortunately it was a |
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lengthy process to allow him access to the overlay but that was cleared |
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10 days ago. |
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Once he starts pushing new ebuilds to the overlay, I will add him as |
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proxy maintainer in metadata.xml. |
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Best regards, |
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Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn |
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[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/80638 |
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[2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474742 |
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