Orphaning avidemux

Thomas Janssen thomasj at fedoraproject.org
Tue Sep 7 15:31:08 CEST 2010


On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
<dominik at greysector.net> wrote:
> On Monday, 30 August 2010 at 17:51, Stewart Adam wrote:
>>  Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to orphan avidemux and offer it to someone who can take better
>> care of it than I can. I'm a bit short on time lately and avidemux is
>> pretty demanding on it...
>>
>> As a heads up to the next maintainer, there are a few outstanding issues:
>> - Avidemux currently is not compiling on devel (or at least, it wasn't the
>> last time I checked about a month ago)
>
> And has broken dependencies due to x264 ABI bump.
>
>> - Avidemux bundles many libraries internally, some of them are outdated
>> compared to upstream and others are patched/"forked"
>
> This is a serious issue. I made an attempt to track them once, see here:
> http://rpmfusion.org/BundledLibraries

*sigh* Doesn't make it easier :) I use avidemux *a lot*. If nobody
else want to take it, i could try it.

I'm already a fedora packager:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/thomasj
But "new" to rpmfusion.

-- 
Best regards
Thomas


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