[FFmpeg-devel] libav commit f8c34f4b8d62afad3f63cf3d9617d73735bef8c1 (again)

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 9:07 AM, Mats Peterson
<matsp888-at-yahoo.com at ffmpeg.org> wrote:
> On 03/16/2016 09:07 AM, Hendrik Leppkes wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 9:03 AM, Mats Peterson
>> <matsp888-at-yahoo.com at ffmpeg.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 03/16/2016 09:04 AM, Hendrik Leppkes wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 8:59 AM, Mats Peterson
>>>> <matsp888-at-yahoo.com at ffmpeg.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 03/16/2016 08:55 AM, Hendrik Leppkes wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 7:50 AM, Mats Peterson
>>>>>> <matsp888-at-yahoo.com at ffmpeg.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 03/16/2016 04:48 AM, Mats Peterson wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 03/16/2016 04:45 AM, Mats Peterson wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> You say the libav commits are merged every day. This commit was
>>>>>>>>> posted
>>>>>>>>> February 22, that's quite a while ago. What is it that causes this
>>>>>>>>> delay?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Mats
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> This is a super-simple patch, at that.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Mats
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Once again, couldn't I just make a new patch with the relevant
>>>>>>> changes
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> libavcodec/indeo2.c and libavcodec/indeo2data.h, and attribute Luca
>>>>>>> Barbato
>>>>>>> in some way?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Either you cherry-pick it properly, or you don't do it at all. So
>>>>>> apparently, no, you cannot.
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>>>>>
>>>>> We'll see what Michael says about that.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> He already said this in an earlier mail, and you ignored him all the
>>>> same. You should try to listen to people and not just do wtf you want.
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>>>
>>> I don't know how the fsck to use that cherry-pick crap.
>>>
>>
>> Then  figure it out, or wait until someone merges it. Manually messing
>> with these things just makes more work for everyone else, which is why
>> we don't accept it. Its as simple as that.
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>
>
> Then why hasn't it been merged yet? You said yourself libav commits are
> merged "every day", unless there is some obstacle. What could this obstacle
> be this time? The commit was posted February 22. It's a fairly long time.
>

There is a few complex API changes before them which take careful work
to merge without breaking them, it just takes a bit of time.

PS:
The commit in question was pushed on March 1, not in February.