Yet again: Current package status updated

[Orcan Ogetbil]

--- On Tue, 10/7/08, Orcan Ogetbil <orcanbahri at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Orcan Ogetbil <orcanbahri at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Yet again: Current package status updated
> To: "RPM Fusion developers discussion list" <rpmfusion-developers at lists.rpmfusion.org>
> Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 7:13 PM
> --- On Tue, 10/7/08, Xavier Lamien
> <laxathom at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> 
> > From: Xavier Lamien <laxathom at fedoraproject.org>
> > Subject: Re: Yet again: Current package status updated
> > To: orcanbahri at yahoo.com, "RPM Fusion developers
> discussion list"
> <rpmfusion-developers at lists.rpmfusion.org>
> > Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 6:56 PM
> > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 12:47 AM, Orcan Ogetbil
> > <orcanbahri at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >> orphaned | KmPg2 | Not found in free-devel
> > >> orphaned | KmPg2 | Not found in free-F-8
> > >> orphaned | KmPg2 | Not found in free-F-9
> > >> orphaned | mamory | Not found in free-devel
> > >> orphaned | mamory | Not found in free-F-8
> > >> orphaned | mamory | Not found in free-F-9
> > >> orphaned | mupen64 | Not found in free-devel
> > >> orphaned | mupen64 | Not found in free-F-8
> > >> orphaned | mupen64 | Not found in free-F-9
> > >> -> Anyone interested?
> > >>
> > >
> > > I can take these over if there's demand.
> > 
> >  If you really want to take them over, please go on
> and ask
> > for CVS request.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Xavier.t Lamien
> > --
> 
> Interested? Yes for KmPg2 and mupen64. Not that much for
> mamory but like I said I'll do it if there is demand.
> 
> Do they need to go through package review process in
> bugzilla? Or else, where should the CVS request be filed?
> 
> -oget

I understand that the above message of mine might have brought some confusion although I tried to explain my thoughts in a later message.

Let me clear up things once and for all. 

First of all, as of now, I don't own these packages. They are still orphans.

2 of these projects (KmPg2 and mupen64) seem dead to me. No activity for more that 2 years. 

- We already provide more recent mpeg encoding GUI software (e.g. avidemux) that has more-or-less the same functions. KmPg2 will need patched to work with our ffmpeg. I don't think keeping it is worth the trouble of hacking the code. 

- I can support mupen64 but it's for i386 only. Thus I can't test the package easily. Also I don't own any software to run on this emulator.

- About mamory: I, for one, am just not interest in it.

The only problem we will encounter is the mupen64 dependency of mythgame-emulators package, which should be fixable (Don't we have mythgame-emulators for non-i386 systems? How do they work this out?).

My own thoughts point in the way that we should consider supporting these 3 packages only if
- there is some package that we (will) want to support that depends on some of these 3 packages, or
- a packager really wants to keep some of them (that's not me), or
- the userbase requests it.

Until then -I think- we should put them on the shelf.

-oget