On Tue, 06 Nov 2018 11:04:17 -0500 Craig Andrews <candr...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 06.11.2018 06:00, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > On Mon, 05 Nov 2018 20:38:58 -0500 > > Craig Andrews <candr...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > >> I think it's time to remove the mask on >=media-video/ffmpeg-4.0 > >> > >> ffmpeg 4 is in many distros (including Debian, Arch) and FreeBSD. > >> Upstreams are starting to require it, too. For example, Kodi 18 and > >> media-plugins/gst-plugins-libav-16 will require it. > >> > >> The blocker issue https://bugs.gentoo.org/653678 has only 5 > >> blockers against it right now: > >> * 654628 has a pull request out to fix it: > >> https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/10341 > >> * 655170 is for a package that (IMHO) should be last-rited: > >> media-libs/mediastreamer > >> * 666166 is for a package that (IMHO) should be last-rited: > >> media-plugins/vdr-image > >> * 655442 and 658128 are for media-video/mplayer and fixed upstream, > >> requiring a new snapshot release > >> > >> What do we say? Can we set a date when the hard mask will be > >> removed? > > > > > > I think 6 months qualifies for ETIMEOUT, so go ahead and unmask > > it :) > > > > merge the github PR; I'll take care of mplayer > > Since Alexis added the mask I believe he can authorize its removal, > so I have done so: > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=deb9d06fb461dc57291498b327e2eeb667444a5f I forgot to mention it, but you should probably have checked the re-kw bug if any and created one after dropping keywords with broken deps :/
