Hello, On Thursday, 13 February 2014 at 17:27, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote: > Dear Bálint, > > The new repository is a fork, and while I invited all the original > developers to use a proper versionning system and join me, none of > them seemed interested in that part. Adding developer keys to this > repository is quite simple, and we do that all the time.
To clarify a bit. I'm interested, but I don't have much time, so this only confirms that what JB did is a step in the right direction, as obviously he does have time. I've sent my key to JB just now. > The time taken to move to git, and to rewrite the history to have > proper authoring was a long investment, so, there is no way I throw > that away, notably because the original way goes against everything > we believe in. Your work is most appreciated and I wouldn't even think about asking you to throw it away. > Moreover, libdvdnav is the most crashing library ever, and is full > of security issues. In VLC for Windows, it crashes twice more than > libavcodec, which is ridiculous, since libdvdnav is probably used in > 10% of the VLC cases. > > Finally, the development is too slow on libdvdnav. This is sad, but true. I sorely miss the days when Nico was active. > Because of the above reasons, VLC will mandate the new library. I'm > sorry, there is no other way I can make it. > > The API should stay compatible as much as possible, since most of > the fixes should happen under the hood. I'll point the current homepage at the new repository in the coming days. Regards, -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org | MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
