HandBrake in rpmfusion? (continued from bug #69)

[Gianluca Sforna]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Justin <eqisow at gmail.com> wrote:
> First, relevant info:
>
> Bug report:
> https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679
>
> IRC convo w/ HandBrake devs:
> http://handbrake.fr/irclogs/handbrake/handbrake20091115_pg2.html

Too bad their logs starts in 2009: I attempted packaging HB about one
year ago and talking with them about packaging issues was the most
frustrating and painful experience I've ever had with _any_ upstream.
Browsing the log it seems you've got a little bit better treatment,
probably because you did not insist too much about unbundling libs...

>
> Summary (from my understanding):
> 1. Fedora/RPMfusion doesn't bundle libraries with programs.
> 2. HandBrake uses customized versions of a lot of libraries, which they bundle.
> 3.In trying to get it packaged Bernard Johnson (0x100 in the IRC
> convo) was trying to reach a compromise where he used system libraries
> where possible, leaving bundled libs only where necessary.
> 4. HandBrake devs either wants all bundled libraries included or for
> it to not be in the distros repo.ì
>
> Current choices are:
> 1. Package it with all bundled libs (against policy)
> 2. Package it the way we want because we can
> 3. Don't package it

I voted for 3 by dropping my efforts previously. Of course, if there
is a dedicated maintainer which is able to go through 2 (I believe
it's a _lot_ of work) it would be fine. 1 is a no-go.

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