On Mon, 05 Nov 2018 20:38:58 -0500 Craig Andrews <candr...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> I think it's time to remove the mask on >=media-video/ffmpeg-4.0 > > ffmpeg 4 is in many distros (including Debian, Arch) and FreeBSD. > Upstreams are starting to require it, too. For example, Kodi 18 and > media-plugins/gst-plugins-libav-16 will require it. > > The blocker issue https://bugs.gentoo.org/653678 has only 5 blockers > against it right now: > * 654628 has a pull request out to fix it: > https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/10341 > * 655170 is for a package that (IMHO) should be last-rited: > media-libs/mediastreamer > * 666166 is for a package that (IMHO) should be last-rited: > media-plugins/vdr-image > * 655442 and 658128 are for media-video/mplayer and fixed upstream, > requiring a new snapshot release > > What do we say? Can we set a date when the hard mask will be removed? I think 6 months qualifies for ETIMEOUT, so go ahead and unmask it :) merge the github PR; I'll take care of mplayer
