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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@g.o>, gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: media-video@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: The state of libav stabilisation
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:44:34
Message-Id: 7de7986c-e65d-3b87-9dac-15167ec739c7@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] The state of libav stabilisation by Andreas Sturmlechner
1 On 12/09/2018 12:38, Andreas Sturmlechner wrote:
2 > Is there anyone still working on libav support? It appears to me that
3 > transition[1] and stabilisation[2] trackers are stuck for a long time without
4 > activity. Missing libav-12 stabilisation means that in several stable
5 > packages, USE=libav is already inaccessible without manual unmasking of the
6 > use flag. I am not prepared to start reverting upstream commits for <libav-12
7 > support[3].
8 >
9 > If this is not going to change, maybe media-video/libav should be dropped to
10 > ~arch. This is still better than dropping support per-package or plastering
11 > package.use.stable.mask with libav entries.
12 >
13 > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=libav-12
14 > [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/617508
15 > [3] https://bugs.gentoo.org/665518
16 >
17 >
18 >
19
20 I guess nobody had time to, libav-12 is working correctly on those arches.
21
22 Thanks for reminding us.
23
24 lu

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[gentoo-dev] Re: The state of libav stabilisation Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@g.o>