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

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