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From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmasking >=media-video/ffmpeg-4.0
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2018 16:07:56
Message-Id: 20181106170741.0a9f54f5@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmasking >=media-video/ffmpeg-4.0 by Craig Andrews
1 On Tue, 06 Nov 2018 11:04:17 -0500
2 Craig Andrews <candrews@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On 06.11.2018 06:00, Alexis Ballier wrote:
5 > > On Mon, 05 Nov 2018 20:38:58 -0500
6 > > Craig Andrews <candrews@g.o> wrote:
7 > >
8 > >> I think it's time to remove the mask on >=media-video/ffmpeg-4.0
9 > >>
10 > >> ffmpeg 4 is in many distros (including Debian, Arch) and FreeBSD.
11 > >> Upstreams are starting to require it, too. For example, Kodi 18 and
12 > >> media-plugins/gst-plugins-libav-16 will require it.
13 > >>
14 > >> The blocker issue https://bugs.gentoo.org/653678 has only 5
15 > >> blockers against it right now:
16 > >> * 654628 has a pull request out to fix it:
17 > >> https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/10341
18 > >> * 655170 is for a package that (IMHO) should be last-rited:
19 > >> media-libs/mediastreamer
20 > >> * 666166 is for a package that (IMHO) should be last-rited:
21 > >> media-plugins/vdr-image
22 > >> * 655442 and 658128 are for media-video/mplayer and fixed upstream,
23 > >> requiring a new snapshot release
24 > >>
25 > >> What do we say? Can we set a date when the hard mask will be
26 > >> removed?
27 > >
28 > >
29 > > I think 6 months qualifies for ETIMEOUT, so go ahead and unmask
30 > > it :)
31 > >
32 > > merge the github PR; I'll take care of mplayer
33 >
34 > Since Alexis added the mask I believe he can authorize its removal,
35 > so I have done so:
36 > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=deb9d06fb461dc57291498b327e2eeb667444a5f
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39 I forgot to mention it, but you should probably have checked the re-kw
40 bug if any and created one after dropping keywords with broken deps :/