Handbrake possible new package

[Orcan Ogetbil]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 7:33 PM, gatlin sullivan wrote:
> Handbrake (http://handbrake.fr/) is a utility to process and encode video
> (and audio). It is supported for the new version of Gnome. It
> actively develops for the GNU/Linux platform. A semi-nightly rpm release is
> made (https://build.handbrake.fr/). There is a spec file listed in its
> source code (http://trac.handbrake.fr/browser/trunk/gtk/ghb.spec). All of
> the source can be found on its web-site (http://trac.handbrake.fr/browser).
> Detailed build instruction (though slightly outdated) can be found
> documenting building, specifically on GNU/Linux, for Fedora and Ubuntu
> (http://trac.handbrake.fr/browser/trunk/doc/BUILD-Linux). It is licensed as
> GNU GPL version 2 (http://trac.handbrake.fr/browser/trunk/COPYING).
> If I attempt to package this after its 9.5 release - which should be
> relatively soon and imminent - will it meet the requirements of Rpmfusion. I
> do know that since it depends on certain things that are unpackageable for
> Fedora's repositories that it will not be acceptable there. I, with
> rpmfusion repositories installed plus libdvdcss, am able to install the
> semi-nightly builds and use them. Thus, I believe that all of the
> license inappropriate dependencies for Fedora must have been met by
> Rpmfusion. I believe that packaging this and putting into Rpmfusion would be
> a great addition to Fedora. I believe that most Fedora desktop users use
> Rpmfusion, so this as an addition to Rpmfusion will really expand the
> presence of Handbrake for Fedora user's to acquaint themselves.
>

It was once proposed in RPMFusion. But we gave up. As far as I
remember upstream wasn't very cooperative. (Was it them who were
calling people names?)

https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679

Orcan