[MPlayer-dev-eng] removing rc2 from mplayerhq.hu

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Fri Nov 13 21:28:39 CET 2009


On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 03:48:27PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 12:49:11PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> >> compn <tempn at twmi.rr.com> writes:
> >> > i was waiting for diego to do something with rc3.
> >> >
> >> > i really dont care about releases. if i do one it will just be an
> >> > svn tarball, with minimal testing. i wont name it rc4, i will go with
> >> > mplayer-(svnrev). there will be no backports of features/fixes/security.
> >> 
> >> I'm currently maintaining a patchset against the rc3 for the debian and
> >> ubuntu packages. Effectively, I'm doing these backports of
> >> features/fixes/security.
> >> 
> >> Is anyone interested in joining this effort for other distros? Perhaps
> >> we can arrange something.
> >
> > IMO please just make branches in MPlayer SVN and apply the patches to
> > those.
> > There should be no real issues with giving packagers from a well-know
> > distro commit access with little hassle.
> >
> >> Diego, what is the status on the rc3 branch? Perhaps some of these
> >> patches can be integrated there?
> >
> > IMO go for it. I sometimes tried to apply stuff to the rc2 branch but
> > I tend to forget it, particularly since I always manage to run out of
> > disk space to do an extra checkout +  test build for that branch.
> 
> I'll give Diego a few days time to give him a chance to veto that.

Fine with me.

Diego



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