Moving xine-lib and dependent apps to RPM Fusion Free for F17?

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 01/05/2012 08:56 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the current xine-lib maintainer speaking. :-)
>
> The Xine project:
> http://www.xine-project.org/home
> has recently released a new major version, version 1.2.0.
>

<snip>

> (d) Move the whole thing (back) to RPM Fusion (where it originally was, before
>      we started needing xine-lib for Amarok and Phonon, which both no longer
>      use it). It would go to the Free section, of course.
> My proposal is to go with (d).
>
> The following packages currently depend on xine-lib:
> * gxine
> * (k9copy – already in RPM Fusion, not affected)
> * kaffeine (my package, the reason why I maintain xine-lib in the first place)
> * oxine
> * xine-plugin
> * xine-ui
> These packages would have to move to RPM Fusion along with xine-lib.
>
> In Kaffeine's case, upstream is switching from xine-lib to MPlayer in their git
> repository, so it will likely have to move to RPM Fusion sooner or later
> anyway. This means the affected packages are basically *xine*.
>
> So my plan is to retire (for my packages, resp. have the respective maintainer
> retire) the listed packages in Fedora for Fedora ≥ 17 and get (or have the
> respective maintainer get) them into RPM Fusion Free instead. (I'd take care
> of xine-lib and kaffeine myself, I hope the maintainers of the other packages
> will take care of them.)

Sounds good, I say go for it!

Regards,

Hans