Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/dvdrip

2005-12-09 Thread Daniel Goller
On Friday 09 December 2005 08:19 pm, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 01:09:50AM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote: > > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > >so the video herd policy is to remove packages until you're left with > > >a small enough subset of packages you can handle ? > > > > I'd rather

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/dvdrip

2005-12-09 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Frysinger wrote: | so the video herd policy is to remove packages until you're left with | a small enough subset of packages you can handle ? Quite a contrast with the x11 herd policy: to add packages until there's 10x more than you can reasonab

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/dvdrip

2005-12-09 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 01:09:50AM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > >so the video herd policy is to remove packages until you're left with > >a small enough subset of packages you can handle ? > > I'd rather say that we select packages that evolve and fit the needs and > kill

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/dvdrip

2005-12-09 Thread Luca Barbato
Chandler Carruth wrote: As a user currently, what steps could I take to help this package stay alive? I will take them as the alternative is to put an unofficial ebuild up on a webpage. On my to be killed list I have transcode <1 avifile transcode 1 is already there and seems in good sh

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/dvdrip

2005-12-09 Thread Luca Barbato
Mike Frysinger wrote: so the video herd policy is to remove packages until you're left with a small enough subset of packages you can handle ? -mike I'd rather say that we select packages that evolve and fit the needs and kill what isn't suitable anymore. There are still many way to shoot

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/dvdrip

2005-12-08 Thread Chandler Carruth
I am not a gentoo developer, but a user, but I have submitted several fixes for dvdrip in the past, and plan on continuing to use it, and get it running and working in gentoo. I would be happy to maintain it, or simply try to more responsively post fixes in the future to Bugzilla if it would ke

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/dvdrip

2005-12-08 Thread Roy Marples
On Thursday 08 December 2005 20:23, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Thursday 08 December 2005 21:10, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > so the video herd policy is to remove packages until you're left with > > a small enough subset of packages you can handle ? > > No, it's to remove the packages that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/dvdrip

2005-12-08 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Thursday 08 December 2005 21:10, Mike Frysinger wrote: > so the video herd policy is to remove packages until you're left with > a small enough subset of packages you can handle ? No, it's to remove the packages that have problems, that requires dependencies that are badly broken (transcode 0.6

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/dvdrip

2005-12-08 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 08:46:31PM +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten? wrote: > If a new maintainer is found, fine, it can remain, but currently the > resources > of Video team are limited and we have enough problems to take care of without > dvdrip. so the video herd policy is to remove packages

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/dvdrip

2005-12-08 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Thursday 08 December 2005 19:12, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > Er, isn't dvdrip the most popular ripping software on Linux? Popular, maybe, but there're enough bug to make it a difficult task to maintain. Current versions are tested only on transcode 0.6 (I'm sure that at least the versions that u

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/dvdrip

2005-12-08 Thread Chris Bainbridge
On 08/12/05, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another package is taking a long long way that goes out of portage. > I'm running out of openings for these mails, you know? > > Alternative dvd-ripping software is present in portage, starting from mencoder > and its frontends, an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/dvdrip

2005-12-08 Thread Benoit Boissinot
On 12/8/05, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another package is taking a long long way that goes out of portage. > I'm running out of openings for these mails, you know? > > Oh well, media-video/dvdrip has many issues reported in bugzilla (some have > patches, most haven't), a

[gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/dvdrip

2005-12-08 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Another package is taking a long long way that goes out of portage. I'm running out of openings for these mails, you know? Oh well, media-video/dvdrip has many issues reported in bugzilla (some have patches, most haven't), and depends on a version of transcode with many issues, too (and force us