Re: [Patch] Add src/video_dec/group_raw.h in the tarball

Xavier Bachelot <[email protected]> Mon, 14 Nov 2016 17:25:39 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.xine.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Torsten,

On 14/11/2016 16:56, Torsten Jager wrote:
>>> Do we need to set another tag when fixed?
>> Possibly, as it's not possible to build from a tarball released
>> from the xine-lib 1.2.7 tag
>
> How about a "1.2.7-release", when everything is tested OK?
>

What about 1.2.8 ? 1.2.7 was tagged, let's not change the tag and go 
with another one that follows the naming of the others.

Also, 1.2.8 would then have your changes since 1.2.7 and possibly 
Mikko's fixes too.

...snip...

>> I still very much care about xine-lib. Actually I'm
>> maintaining it for a 3rd party Fedora repository, RPM Fusion,
>> as ffmpeg is not allowed in Fedora proper because of software
>> patent issues.
>
> In that case, my "detach everything from libav* that does not
> really use it" series might be useful at last.
> Although I primarily did that to restore the original xine
> idea of modularity and diversification.
>
You mean, one could have main package for xine-lib in Fedora with all 
the patented parts removed and another complementary package in RPM 
Fusion with only the patented parts ?

>> Speaking of this, there are currently 2 patches needed for
>> the Fedora package, it would be nice if they can be reviewed
>> and pushed.
>
> OK, doing that.
> Already got a fix for that multilib issue (not sure whether
> I introduce another regression there).

I'll give it a try.

> For xcb, things may take a bit because I forgot to download
> the actual patches attached to [1] (still no inet here).
>
>> Also, there might be something more to fix in the tarball
>> generation. The second problem I alluded to in my first email
>> was some missing files in the tarball for ffmpeg, namely
>> mkcodeclist.pl, avcodec_video.list and xine_video.list.
>> I generated a tarball that contained them after installing
>> ffmpeg-devel, but I think they should be unconditionally
>> added when generating the tarball.
>
> Thank you for that hint. I was able to reproduce it here
> through ./configure --disable-ffmpeg, and my upload should
> fix that.
>

Excellent, thank you.

Regards,
Xavier


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