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h5n1

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Registered: 2009-11-14

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[SOLVED] no maintainer for ffmpeg2theora package

hey, the maintainer of the ffmpeg2theora package, Eric Bélanger, is on the "Past trusted Users"-List.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Trusted_Users
So the package doesn't get updated and is now incompatible with libtheora-v1.1.

What happens now?
Will somebody take over the maintainance for this specific package, and does a maintainer in general give a message when she_he leaves and packages have to go to somebody else?

Should I better ask such questions on the Newbie Corner?

Last edited by h5n1 (2009-11-18 14:41:53)

Allan

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Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: [SOLVED] no maintainer for ffmpeg2theora package

He may be a past trusted user, but he is a current developer: http://www.archlinux.org/developers/#EricB

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h5n1

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Registered: 2009-11-14

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] no maintainer for ffmpeg2theora package

Oh, yes.
I wrote him a jabber message.

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: [SOLVED] no maintainer for ffmpeg2theora package

I was waiting for the upcoming ffmpeg rebuild to update the package. Anyway, 0.25 doesn't build with the ffmpeg in the repo. I guess it's too old. Is there a problem with ffmpeg2theora?  Can you be more specific about it?  Does rebuilding the package fix it?

MP2E

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Registered: 2009-09-05

Posts: 115

Re: [SOLVED] no maintainer for ffmpeg2theora package

I'd recommend having snapshot builds of FFMPEG periodically, the goal of FFMPEG is to have as stable of a trunk as possible, and I believe it fulfills this well. I haven't had an issue with any version of FFMPEG so far, and I compile the latest svn every day.

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