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After realplayer the last week, also helixplayer is pending removal from the |
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tree. |
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HelixPlayer, opensource player developed by Real and somewhat similar to |
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RealPlayer has a bad history of security vulnerabilities and it's still |
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vulnerable to a security issue (1.0.6 is out but still missing an ebuild). |
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As the maintainership of this package is difficult, and the package by itself |
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is a bit of a mess (for example it does only build fine on x86, no way it can |
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work on amd64 or other platforms AFAICS), I've masked it and it's pending |
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removal in 24h. |
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As the release of 2.0 version is imminent [1], and that version *might* work |
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better on non-x86 arches, the media-video herd reserve the possibility of a |
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return when that version is released (hopefully with less security concerns). |
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If someone wants to join the herd for maintaining this package, is absolutely |
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welcome. Knowing the past problems, if someone wants, it's also invited to |
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write a maintainer's guide (similar to xine's[2]) so that if it's going to |
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leave the team someone else will know how to treat it. |
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[1] https://player.helixcommunity.org/2005/dev/plans.html |
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[2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/video/xine.xml |
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Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ |
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Gentoo/ALT lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE |
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