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From: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: media-video@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] The state of libav stabilisation
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 10:39:20
Message-Id: 1676562.WTpo3CGDgJ@tuxbrain
1 Is there anyone still working on libav support? It appears to me that
2 transition[1] and stabilisation[2] trackers are stuck for a long time without
3 activity. Missing libav-12 stabilisation means that in several stable
4 packages, USE=libav is already inaccessible without manual unmasking of the
5 use flag. I am not prepared to start reverting upstream commits for <libav-12
6 support[3].
7
8 If this is not going to change, maybe media-video/libav should be dropped to
9 ~arch. This is still better than dropping support per-package or plastering
10 package.use.stable.mask with libav entries.
11
12 [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=libav-12
13 [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/617508
14 [3] https://bugs.gentoo.org/665518

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[gentoo-dev] Re: The state of libav stabilisation Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>