Any interest in mediainfo?

[Richard Shaw]

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 2:59 AM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <
dominik at greysector.net> wrote:

> Hi Richard,
>
> On Tuesday, 06 August 2013 at 03:41, Richard Shaw wrote:
> > I don't think there's any reason mediainfo[1] can't go in Fedora, but I
> > figured the most likely user base would be here in RPM Fusion.
> >
> > This has been a useful utility for me giving very detailed media
> > information and I'm considering submitting it for review anyway, but it
> > requires two other libraries that are not yet in Fedora and I've got
> enough
> > packages to take care of as it is.
> >
> > That being said, if someone will help with the reviews and offer to
> > co-maintain, I'd consider submitting them for review.
>
> I can review, but not co-maintain. (Un)fortunately, upstream provides
> their own RPMs, which are... odd. You'll need to come up with a set of
> Provides: and Obsoletes: and try to convince upstream to stop doing
> their own and point to official Fedora repositories instead once it
> passes review.


I was trying to decide if I would bother trying make the official packages
conflict with theirs, I think it may be more of a case of caveat emptor. In
the case of the libraries though, he appends a 0 to the package name. I'm
not sure what problems that would create.

Richard
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